Deliberation Quote by Edmund Burke

“Frenzy destroys our inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes…

— Thomas Merton

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

— Blaise Pascal

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

— William Blake

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

— Thomas Paine

“William James, in his “Talks to Teachers,” derided that “ceaseless frenzy” in which we always feel that we “should be doing something else.” The…

— Ernest Kurtz

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

— Colin Powell

Madness is consistent; which is more than can be said for poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time continues equally…

— Laurence Sterne

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

— Thucydides

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of…

— Virgil

Edward Banfield's idea of the "long time horizon," says that more successful people look further into the future, judging their efforts and results in…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

— Howard Zinn

Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will…

— E. M. Delafield