"Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men."

-- Alistair Cooke

#Men Quotes #Fellow Man Quotes #Habit Quotes

“To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.”
“So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.”

Source : Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.288, Penguin
“The Bible does not contain the Word of God; It is the Word of God.”
“The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.”
“The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.”

Source : "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.
“I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.”
“It takes time to save time.”
“How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?”

You may also like:

Alastair Cook
Cricketer
Andrew Davies
Writer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th U.S. President
H. L. Mencken
Journalist
Helen Mirren
Actor
Leonard Bernstein
Composer
Russell Baker
Writer
Susan Hampshire
Actress
Martin Gilbert
Historian