Famous quotes by Statesmans

"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"So live with men as if God saw you, and speak to God, as if men heard you"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Every reign must submit to a greater reign"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Do everything as in the eye of another"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company?"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

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