Categories Starting with “P”

“In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.”

— Cicero

“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”

— Honoré de Balzac

“All my adult life people have been helping me.”

— Stephen Hawking

“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”

— Victor Hugo

“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.”

— Steven Pinker

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Explore persistence quotes from renowned thinkers and authors.

“The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.”

— Montesquieu

“Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.”

— Robert Frost

“I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.”

— Nelson Mandela

“God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.”

— Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

“Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.”

— Bill Gates

“Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“A place for everything, everything in its place.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.”

— Buzz Aldrin

“I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.”

— Bill Gates

“You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love — who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey