Francois de Fenelon Famous Quotes



Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.


Francois de Fenelon Quotations






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"Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind."
Stephen Vincent Benet

"When in doubt, do the courageous thing."
Jan Smuts

"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
Kingman Brewster Jr

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
Fran Lebowitz

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw

"When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."
Carl R Rogers

"Said Waldershare, 'Sensible men are all of the same religion.' 'And pray what is that' ... 'Sensible men never tell.'"
Benjamin Disraeli

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.
Heywood

"It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate."
George McGovern

Oppression can only survive through silence.
Carmen de Monteflores