Always Quotes

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

The best way out is always through.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.