Categories Starting with “P”

“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”

— Albert Einstein

“I have a son, but I've never had a daughter. I have a sister, and my sister had a fairly tempestuous relationship with my dad when she was young, and that was gripping and sometimes upsetting.”

— Howard Jacobson

“A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.”

— Oscar Wilde

“For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Explore persistence quotes from renowned thinkers and authors.

“How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?”

— Henry David Thoreau

“I read poetry to save time.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.”

— Barack Obama

“The human mind will not be confined to any limits.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.”

— Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

“A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.”

— Douglas Coupland

“I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

“I'm an actress. It's my passion.”

— Sophia Loren

“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”

— Lao Tzu

“In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.”

— Dalai Lama

“Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.”

— Bill Gates