I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to…

I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither the one…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

— Orel Hershiser

But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning,…

— Thomas Hobbes

These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your trust in the Son…

— Neil L. Andersen

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help…

— Aldous Huxley

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia.…

— Hermann E. Ott

Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put…

— Margaret Thatcher

A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it…

— Horace Walpole

Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for…

— John Burroughs

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

— Thomas Paine

“instead of accepting love's strength, we are trying to diminish it so that it fits the world in which we imagine we live.”

— Paulo Coelho

I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more…

— Aaron Rodgers

I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but…

— Randy Moss