The greatest gains and values are farthest from being…

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are…

— Henry David Thoreau

Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I…

— Ichiro Suzuki

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

— Anonymous

There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.…

— Dorothy Parker

If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

— Donald Trump

The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is…

— Norman Cousins

Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the…

— Michael Hudson

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

— Frederick Douglass

Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle…

— Colin Powell

The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out…

— Lyndon B. Johnson