A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

A sense of humour is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

How long should you try? Until.

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

I'm sorry this letter is so long, I didn't have time to make it shorter.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Life should be great rather than long.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.