Alternative Quotes

736 quotes by 620 authors

Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in… — Ed Bliss
Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not… — Julian Simon
How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man… — Theodore Roosevelt
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations. — Golda Meir
Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them… — Ronald Reagan
Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and… — Ronald Reagan
Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up. — Judith Martin
Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure. — Georges St-Pierre
Who I think is actually doing great things for the appearance of women is that Kardashian girl. Kim Kardashian is giving an alternative. I don't… — Lucy Lawless
The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition — Jaroslav Pelikan
There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to… — A.C. Grayling
Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom. — Paul Stamets
It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is important to emphasize again and again and again that finding a cure is not the problem The cures for many cancers, if not… — Barry Lynes
I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least… — Jenny Hval
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. — John Fowles
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the… — Milton Friedman

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