Any Quotes

I will praise any man that will praise me.
William Shakespeare

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma Gandhi

Moral, Effort, Hold

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
Mahatma Gandhi

Reason, Religious, Morality

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Mahatma Gandhi

May, Down, Moral

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken

Government, Able, Lives

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand

Men, Power, Government

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William Shakespeare

Honesty, Him, Dog

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Cannot, Ambition, Merit

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass

Freedom, Black, Progress

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.
Allyson Felix

Trust, God, Important

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
Johnny Depp

Work, Good, Someone

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon

Society, Live, Mean

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung

Two, Both, Reaction

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke

Technology, Magic, Advanced

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Men, Spiritual

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw

Peace, Happiness, Pain

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
Eminem

Mind, Reason, Deserve

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
Bill Gates

Great, Learn, Interested

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
Emma Thompson

Family, Bad, Someone

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent Peale

Success, Attitude, Failure

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin

Respect, Political, Easy

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
Marilyn Monroe

Girl, Worry, She

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
Muhammad Ali

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
Francis of Assisi

God, Men, Compassion

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before, Service, Silent

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society, Sense, Common

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child

Successful, Important, Belief

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Paul Tillich

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us