Quotes to inspire and reflect

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

An intellectual hate is the worst.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and angrier to the end.

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

It is new fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.

A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Cogito ergo sum.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

The mind is not sex-typed.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.

We are living beyond our means.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a no world.

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far.

No man is above the law and no man below it.

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before.

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

There's no secret about success.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.