Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

Never despair. Never surrender.

Chinua Achebe

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

Catherynne M. Valente

The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

Woody Allen

We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.

Edmond de Goncourt

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Charles Baudelaire

Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

Charles Baudelaire

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Spurgeon

One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.

Catherine the Great

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

Eartha Kitt

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

Carolyn Wells

Reward is its own virtue.

Brian Jaffe

We're excited, we're optimistic, we're hopeful. Hopefully, the rewards are going to be there. The rewards had better be there.

Brian Weiss

The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

Juvenal

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]

Daniel H. Pink

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

Dore Gold

We want the peace process to succeed. In order for it to succeed, you, Mr. Arafat, must move away from terrorism, shift this from a conflict process to a peace process. And then we're ready to engage diplomatically.

Kirk Hanson

The potential for conflict of interest is greater today than it's ever been.

Sheikh Rashid

We have no desire to become involved in a heated conflict. We will do whatever it takes to defend our country.

Janet Howard

Whether they're able to do under the ethics statute or not, it's a plain conflict of interest.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.

Ricardo Sanchez

We're fighting a low-intensity conflict that is multifaceted,

Sergei Kupriyanov

Ukraine refused, which shows that the Ukrainian authorities planned a conflict from the very beginning, i.e. to tap, or rather steal, gas intended for European consumers.

Richard G. Scott

I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.

George William Russell

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.