Fortune Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

— Christian Nestell Bovee

He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something…

— Christian Nestell Bovee