Quotes for August 1049 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every August 10: the anniversary does not move.

• Action is character.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 9 votes · 115 reads

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• All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.3 · 32 votes · 116 reads

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• An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 25 votes · 162 reads

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• An executive is someone who talks with visitors so the other employees can get their work done.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 56 votes · 191 reads

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• Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.7 · 63 votes · 185 reads

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• Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  4.6 · 53 votes · 76 reads

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• Christianity makes suffering contagious.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.2 · 27 votes · 44 reads

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• Every day, every week without taking decisions is a problem for us, is a very wrong message for the markets and increases the lack of credibility of our economies.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

  PoliticianSpanish1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 24 votes · 40 reads

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• Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 15 votes · 88 reads

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• Gluttony kills more than the sword.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.0 · 56 votes · 89 reads

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• God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  4.9 · 46 votes · 117 reads

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• He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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  Aeschylus

  WriterGreek-525 · 6th century BC

  4.6 · 14 votes · 100 reads

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• I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.8 · 21 votes · 198 reads

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• I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typeWriterthat very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.9 · 14 votes · 87 reads

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• I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.0 · 40 votes · 151 reads

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• If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.0 · 51 votes · 147 reads

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• If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consu

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.9 · 36 votes · 144 reads

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• It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.5 · 26 votes · 135 reads

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• Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  3.9 · 19 votes · 142 reads

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• Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 171 reads

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• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.8 · 7 votes · 20 reads

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• Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

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  John Donne

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  3.6 · 8 votes · 174 reads

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• Much fiscal policy is implemented, not through spending increases, but through tax credits and other so-called tax expenditures. The markets should respond to them as they do spending cuts, with little contraction in economic activity.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.8 · 27 votes · 100 reads

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• Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.3 · 52 votes · 184 reads

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• One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 30 votes · 176 reads

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• One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.7 · 58 votes · 76 reads

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• Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  3.6 · 55 votes · 3 reads

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• Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.5 · 52 votes · 45 reads

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• Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  3.7 · 19 votes · 101 reads

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• Successful people are simply people who learn to solve their problems... they are not people without problems.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 25 votes · 7 reads

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• The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is, that it not only employ itself, but is almost sure to be the means of giving wholesome employment to others.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 36 votes · 99 reads

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• The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.0 · 57 votes · 174 reads

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• The word ''belief'' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it -I don't need to believe it.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  4.5 · 55 votes · 164 reads

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• The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  3.6 · 41 votes · 113 reads

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• There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.0 · 25 votes · 131 reads

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• They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.7 · 31 votes · 181 reads

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• Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 52 votes · 19 reads

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• Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.5 · 17 votes · 10 reads

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• True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

  

  Jean Cocteau

  AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

  4.4 · 23 votes · 176 reads

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• Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  4.5 · 58 votes · 109 reads

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• We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 53 votes · 52 reads

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• We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wante

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.6 · 29 votes · 120 reads

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• What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  4.1 · 36 votes · 144 reads

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• When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.4 · 29 votes · 54 reads

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• When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to th

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.5 · 40 votes · 68 reads

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• When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  5.0 · 33 votes · 14 reads

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• When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

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  Julius Robert Oppenheimer

  PhysicistAmerican1904 · 20th century

  3.5 · 51 votes · 26 reads

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• Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

  

  German proverb

  German

  3.5 · 12 votes · 120 reads

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