Charles G. Dawes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
-- Charles G. Dawes

#Mediocrity #Dignity
Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.
-- Charles G. Dawes

#Soul #Plant #Form
How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.
-- Charles G. Dawes

#Simple #Men #Majestic
American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.
-- Charles G. Dawes

#Feet #Brain #Hell
Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.
-- Charles G. Dawes

#Hope #Despair #Slave
I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end.
-- Charles G. Dawes

#Hate #Tired #Thinking
For me--I hold no commerce with despair!
-- Charles G. Dawes

#Despair #Commerce

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.
Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.
Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.
My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.
The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.

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