lawyer Quotes

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

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• Bravery

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

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• consequences

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

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• followers

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

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• being

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

• 82
• Friends

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

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• forgiveness

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

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• Labor

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

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• Murder

A book is the only immortality.

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• Reading

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

• 24
• Charity

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

• 17
• Parenting

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

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• education

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

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• Language

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

• 16
• History

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving

• 13
• Charity

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

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• Happiness

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

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• freedom

No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

• 11
• being

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

• 11
• Understanding

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

• 9
• Ignorance

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

• 9
• Anger

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

• 8
• nature

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

• 8
• Speeches

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

• 8
• Presidency

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

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• american

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

• 7
• Ignorance

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

• 7
• Forgiveness

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

• 7
• Belief

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

• 6
• Men

You can only be free if I am free.

• 6
• Freedom

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

• 6
• Doubt

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

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• compromise

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

• 5
• best

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

• 5
• death

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.

• 5
• Truth

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

• 5
• Kindness

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

• 5
• Happiness

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

• 5
• Death

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

• 4
• age

To think is to differ.

• 4
• differ

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

• 4
• politics

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

• 4
• politics

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

• 4
• Truth

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

• 4
• Honesty

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

• 4
• Help

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.

• 4
• Consequences

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose

• 4
• Atheism

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

• 3
• owns

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

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• clouds

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

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• Work