Them Quotes

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.

I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.