(1209 quotes found)
“My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.”
William Jennings Bryan
“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
Calvin Coolidge
“That whether you are British, American or some other nationality, the No 1 task is to move from inter-dependence -- which can be good or bad -- to an integrated global community in which there is a shared future, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity and, most importantly, shared values. . . . The only way we can live together is if we say the celebration of our differences requires us to say that our common humanity matters more.”
Bill Clinton
“Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence”
Samuel Johnson
“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.”
John Gunther
“You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.”
Chuck Tanner
“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
Wallace Stevens
“There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.”
Charles Bukowski
“We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image”
Nelson Mandela