John Lyman Chatfield famous quotes

Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.
-- John Lyman Chatfield

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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.

I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.

The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.

Judgment of eye, speed and attack are the basis of victory.