Quotes
Quotes about End
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'
The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
A DEEP-SWORN VOW Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.
30,000 baby chicks were sent through a San Diego factory farm chipper by workers too tired to continue individual strangling. That made the chipper a chicker.. while the little drum with swirling knives into which some factories drop baby chicks is called an eviscerator.. and what is the name for those tiny mouse sized guillotines Purina as owner of the magazine Lab Animal advertised for decapitation of captive expendable lab animals?
Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.
Accept everything about yourselfâI mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the endâ no apologies, no regrets.
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.
Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold-- For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.
He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best.
Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate, Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts, our angles are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is on a locomotive headed right for me.
To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods and aching arms. To my ex-wife, bass are the bewilderment of addiction.
