Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. Lewis Morris on boldness
How far high failure overleaps the bounds of low success. Lewis Morris on success
But boundless risk must pay for boundless gain. William Morris on risk
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Dwight Morrow on success
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. Doris Mortman on inspiration
The hunger for love is much more difficult to removethan the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa on love
There’s nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans. Malcolm Muggeridge on agreement
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. Lewis Mumford on change
The test of maturity, for nations as well as individuals, is not the increase of power, but in the increase of self, self, self direction, and self transcendence. For in a mature society, man himself and not his machines or his organizations is the chief work of art. Lewis Mumford on individuality
Business, old man, I said, retire from business, it has retired from you Samuel Beckett on business
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for more assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. Hector Hugh Munro on animals
This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: "Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth. Benito Mussolini on epithets
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. Benito Mussolini on government
He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes. Nagarjuna on action
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. Nagarjuna on death
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion. Nagarjuna on enemy
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. Nagarjuna on enemy
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. Nagarjuna on excellence
When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child? Nagarjuna on family
This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions. Nagarjuna on fate