Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal,… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
When a woman feels the first grip of her child's dependence upon her, she has forever lost her freedom. If the child… — Alice Moore Hubbard Copy Share Image
Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Before people will do anything, they have got to eat. And if you are really looking for a way for people to… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
We fill our lives with all sorts of things that make it easier for us to get along in the world: wheelchairs,… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
When we consider that labor is the producer of all wealth, is it not evident that the impoverishment and, dependence of labor… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It is wiser to build our dependance on God than building it on people, because people can choose to leave us at… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
All that man sees has to do with man. Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship. The community of the centre of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and… — Lewis Henry Morgan Copy Share Image
Everybody hates dependence, and that's why couples are continuously fighting, not knowing why they are fighting. They have to meditate over it,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on… — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
You can't tap your back for a job well done, you can't hug yourself for comfort, and you can't cry on your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants.… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable… — Tim Yeo Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
This is also evident in Europe, not the dependence on oil and gas, but the fact that structural reforms are long overdue,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moyo, a Zambia-born economist, asserts that aid is not only ineffective-it's harmful. Her argument packs a strong punch because she was born… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
True happiness starts within oneself, do not depend on another for total happiness, your entire heart and essence of your being is… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
Do not become self-sufficient . Self-sufficienc y is Satan’s net where he catches men, like poor silly fish, and destroys them. Be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training,… — George R. Roberts Copy Share Image
“The wilderness was the testing ground—the deciding place. It was a place of God revealing himself in a whole new and deeper… — Amy Layne Litzelman Copy Share Image
Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
Humility: The realization of our dependence on God. I have always had strong feelings about that word regardless of what anyone's background… — Hyrum W. Smith Copy Share Image