Chartacter Quotes

Anyone who doesn't take truth

seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

The point of life is to be happy,

and to bring happiness to others.

In the state of nature,

life is solitary,

poor,

nasty,

brutish,

and short.

Veni, vidi, vici.

(I came, I saw, I conquered.)

Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.

A business that makes nothing but

money is a poor business

To know the true nature of the heavens,

one must first free oneself from the chains of human opinion.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance

with the will of God.

Both may be, and one must be wrong.

If Singapore is a nanny state,

then I am proud to have fostered one.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…

you’ll be a man, my son.

A man’s mind,

stretched by a new idea,

never regains its original size.

Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

Reality is wrong.

Dreams are for real.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Success is a combination of hard work,

perseverance,

and taking risks.

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas,

if not a dead lion for this work,

is at least a caged and toothless one.

How can he oppose the advances of slavery?

He don't care anything about it.

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law,

but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.