Lasting Quotes

• There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Family, Inspiring, Children

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• If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Happiness, Live Life, Race

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• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

  Kate Chopin

  Memorable, Water, People

  Kate Chopin (2005). “The Awakening - Literary Touchstone”, p.142, Prestwick House Inc

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• Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Teacher, Fear, Teaching

  "Philippicae (Philippics)". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter 36), 44-43 BC.

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  Salvador Dali

  Love, Respect, Artist

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• He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

  Henry Drummond

  Life, Winning, Names

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• The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

  John Foster Dulles

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

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• The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Agreement, Important

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.331, Best Books on

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• A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

  Sigmund Freud

  Civilization, Numbers, Perspective

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Marriage, Drinking

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.254

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• There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

  Albert Camus

  Death, Peace, Heart

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.234, Vintage

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• I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Hypnosis, Lasting Love

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• Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Democracy, Foundation, Lasting Love

  Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (1996). “Crisis of democratization”

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• Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men

  Gifford Pinchot

  Wise, Mean, Men

  Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.505, Island Press

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• My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Country, Citizens, World

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris

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• That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

  William Blake

  God, Christian, Benefits

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.615, Univ of California Press

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• The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.

  Y. C. James Yen

  Men, People, Foundation

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• One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Inspirational, Over You, Feelings

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee

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• What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

  Frederick Tennyson

  Echoes, Forever, Answers

  Frederick Tennyson, Sappho, Alcaeus (1890). “The Isles of Greece: Sappho and Alcæus”, London Macmillan 1890.

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• A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Order

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Real, War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.

  Claire Danes

  Real, Connections, Lasting Love

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• No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

  Joseph Addison

  Political, Politics, Oppression

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.286

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• There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

  Layne Staley

  Drug, Use, Stills

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• No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

  J. Paul Getty

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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