Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

I used to say to our audiences: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

You’re never too young for something you really want to do, never too young to go after your passion. The age doesn’t matter at all. If it’s something you want to do, it depends on your will

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place

We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it

Israel is excessively joined to America, also affected by America. It ought to be associated with Europe. America depends on folklore – the liberated person, the individual, the open boondocks. Europe is increasingly aware of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your personality through history.

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love’s sake.

The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

What something is depends more on when it is than anything else.

Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.

A thing that many young fellows don’t seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

My point exactly. We still depend on Roger Clemens being out there on the mound. We still depend on our stars leading the way.

I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the power is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Success does not depend on what kind of tools we use but how we use .

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Around here, I am only the guy who is responsible. If these men don’t know what to do when they run into an enemy in the jungle, I’m too far away to tell them. My job is to make sure they know. What they do depends on the situation which only they can judge. The responsibility is always mine, but the decision lies with whoever is on the spot.” In.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

Our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others

The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

It is very important and my success very much depends on the harmony that I feel in my private life. It is essential for me to be happy in my private life. And if it continues, I am able to continue playing tennis

The future depends on what you do today.

Don’t chase the boys. Don’t depend on anybody. Do your thing.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom

One of the things you can always depend on, this is one of the truths of the universe. And you heard it first from here, whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.