May Quotes

20575 May quotes by 7930 unique authors

We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr's death,… — Subhas Chandra Bose
Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment of such a… — Subhas Chandra Bose
As Fuehrer of the German people and Chancellor of the Reich, I can thank God at this moment that he has so wonderfully blessed us… — Adolf Hitler
We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must… — Glen E. Morrell
Air power may either end war or end civilization. — Winston Churchill
Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with… — Henry David Thoreau
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic. — Desiderius Erasmus
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own… — Hannah Arendt
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy
If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a… — Mildred H. McAfee
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. — Henry Taylor
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to… — Charles Horton Cooley
If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider — Joyce Brothers
Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a… — Charles Saatchi
Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall. — Tacitus
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues. — Quintilian
The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions — Unknown Author
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of… — Gertrude Jekyll

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