206 quotes found
“Flowers are so inconsistent!”
“All the stars are a riot of flowers.”
“No one is ever satisfied where he is.”
“Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.”
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.”
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”
“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”
“Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.”
“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths wh...”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye. ”
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.”
“When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.”
“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
“A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'”
“Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.”
“To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.”
“Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.”
“A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."”
“Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.”
“There is no hope or joy except in human relations.”
