Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Hermann Hesse

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise Pascal

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
John Jay Chapman

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry B. Adams

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.
Niklaus Wirth

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
F. M. Cornford

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
Frances Cornford

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
Wallace Stevens

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand Russell

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.
Seth Lloyd

Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.
Peter Tork

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
Fernando Pessoa