"The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

#Success Quotes #Character Quotes #Men Quotes

“Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (2016). “ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more”, p.194, e-artnow
“People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.”
“Typing is no substitute for thinking.”

Source : "Structured BASIC programming". Book by John G. Kemeny, p. 118, 1987.
“The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby.”
“Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.”

Source : Clarence Day (1997). “This Simian World”, p.6, Courier Corporation
“I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.”
“Ive got nothing against foreign managers, they are very nice people. Apart from Arsene Wenger”
“Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised - so it's no longer "in the closet," as it were. It's part of the discussion going on about the future of African literature. The same questions are there in Native American languages, they're there in native Canadian languages, they're there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish. So what I thought was just an African problem or issue is actually a global phenomenon about relationships of power between languages and cultures.”

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