May Quotes - Page 18

• There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.

  Learned Hand

  Anger, Passion, Succeed

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Positive, Tragedy, Triumph

  "The Queen of Daytime TV". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 25, 1991.

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• Who knows but the world may end tonight

  Robert Browning

  Time, Tonight, World

  "The Last Ride Together" l. 22 (1855)

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• For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Time

  'Troilus and Criseyde' bk. 4, l. 1283

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• Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

  Robert Herrick

  Death, Time, Flower

  "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" l. 1 (1648)

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• Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

  Andrew Marvell

  Sports, Time, Bird

  c.1650-1652 'To His Coy Mistress' (published 1681).

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• See the minutes, how they run,
  How many make the hour full complete;
  How many hours bring about the day;
  How many days will finish up the year;
  How many years a mortal man may live.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Time, Men

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 1, sc. 5, l. 21

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• If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should we not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension; or even to turn about and travel the other way?

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Mean, Men

  "The Time Machine". Book by H. G. Wells, 1895.

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• Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Grace, Lust

  1881 Leaves of Grass, 'Youth, Day, Old Age and Night', stanza 1.

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• While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Time, Years, Age

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• Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Future, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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• He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

  Horace

  Time, Today, Tomorrow

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• A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Horse, War

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• The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.

  Charles Lamb

  Time, Men, People

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.215

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• Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Inspirational, Action, Habit

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• Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can overcome or modify the fact altogether.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Attitude, Optimistic

  "The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results".

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• Power lies in the details, and the tenacious pursuit of such hidden levers can pay off enormously. While you don't want to get a reputation as a prissy worrywart, worrying about the details in private is important. You may think you are the world's greatest speaker, but if the auditorium's sound system is singing static - well, forget it.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Lying, Thinking

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• The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Effort, Failing

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.115, Bantam

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• Every physical fact, every expression of nature, every feature of the earth, the work of any and all of those agents which make the face of the world what it is, and as we see it, is interesting and instructive. Until we get hold of a group of physical facts, we do not know what practical bearings they may have, though right-minded men know that they contain many precious jewels, which science, or the expert hand of philosophy will not fail top bring out, polished, and bright, and beautifully adapted to man's purposes.

  Matthew Fontaine Maury

  Nature, Philosophy, Hard Work

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• Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

  Hermann Weyl

  Math, Science, Men

  Hermann Weyl (2015). “Symmetry”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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• My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms,
  the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely
  and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them
  because I know that I am bored.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Lonely, Being Alone, Two

  In Observer 12 Dec. 1948, p. 2

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• Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

  James de la Vega

  Business, Thinking, Eels

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• What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Change

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• Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christmas, Xmas, Joy

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Sermons for the principal festivals and fasts of the church year, ed. by Rev John Cotton Brooks”

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• At Christmas I no more desire a rose
  Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
  But like of each thing that in season grows.

  William Shakespeare

  Christmas, Time, Xmas

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 105

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