Quotes – Orison Swett Marden

“The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.”
- Orison Swett Marden

Famous Quotes – Fame and Future Days

But fame is theirs – and future days
On pillar’d brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell – when cold neglect is dead -
“These for their country fought and bled.”
- Philip Freneau

Famous Quotes – Mark Twain – Patriot

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

Famous Quotes – Alternatives – Henry Kissinger

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
- Henry Kissinger