diplomat Quotes

Friendship needs no words...

• 136
• friends

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

• 17
• Journeys

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

• 16
• Purpose

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.

• 15
• Persuasion

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

• 15
• Confidence

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

• 13
• accept

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

• 9
• art

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

• 8
• strength

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

• 7
• funny

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

• 7
• Wisdom

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

• 7
• Serenity

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

• 6
• Authors

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

• 5
• war

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

• 5
• Problems

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

• 5
• Necessity

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

• 5
• Mistakes

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

• 5
• Fate

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

• 4
• history

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

• 4
• friendship

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

• 4
• free

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

• 4
• best

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

• 4
• Politics

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

• 4
• Patience

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existance.

• 4
• Medicine

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

• 4
• quotes

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

• 3
• between

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

• 3
• army

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

• 3
• Patriotism

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

• 3
• Life

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

• 3
• Integrity

History is a better guide than good intentions.

• 3
• History

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

• 3
• Agreement

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

• 3
• Actions

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

• 2
• come

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

• 2
• absolutely

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

• 2
• affairs

Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.

• 2
• ego

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

• 2
• algeria

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

• 2
• politics

I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.

• 2
• children

"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

• 2
• freedom

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

• 2
• war

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

• 2
• battle

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

• 2
• politics

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

• 2
• absence

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

• 2
• Religion

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

• 2
• Purpose

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

• 2
• Pain

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

• 2
• Opinion

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

• 2
• Loneliness