A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it,the less will be the… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor.… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I think that Hick was in love with Eleanor, and Eleanor was in love with Hick. I think it's very important to… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things so you would always be laughing. You know… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most races live,… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Godly enthusiasm is not a fire of our own kindling...If a man, however, has caught fire, let me not quench the Spirit… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Before Midnight is one of the years best movies. Full to the brim with humor, heartbreak, and ravishing romance. Richard Linklater directs… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
“The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Eucharist had so powerful an attraction for the Blessed Virgin that she could not live away from It. She lived in… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference,… — Leopold Hartley Grindon Copy Share Image
Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender… — John Ross Macduff Copy Share Image
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
The only initiation which I advocate and which I look for with all the ardor of my Soul, is that by which… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
When you pray either aloud or to yourself for others ? for instance, for the members of your household or for strangers,… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image