The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The NRA is right...handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns. — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
There is a direct relationship between how we feel about Jesus Christ and how we see ourselves. We cannot increase our devotion… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
[When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences,… — James Mill Copy Share Image
The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes… — Al-Kindi Copy Share Image
I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of… — William Sealy Gosset Copy Share Image
We know that a statement proved to be good must be oorrect. New thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two theories… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But a little milk, butter and cheese are acceptable because no harm is done in obtaining them. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town. — George Burns Copy Share Image