Motivational Quotes

Nations

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

- Sellar, W. C.

Best Quotes about Nations

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Sigourney, Lydia

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.

Wilder, Billy

A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.

Burton, Pierre

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Burke, Edmund

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Moliere

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

Lawrence, D. H.

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

Sellar, W. C.

Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.

Edinborough, Arnold

10.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

Bradbury, Malcolm

11.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?

Gaulle, Charles De

13.

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

Kubrick, Stanley

14.

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

15.

The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Acheson, Dean

17.

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

Carter, Jimmy

18.

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Ruskin, John

20.

I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.

Cuellar, Javier Perez De

21.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Truman, Harry S

22.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

Goldman, Emma

23.

If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent -- a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.

Potter, Henry Codman

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A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

Briand, Aristide

25.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Twain, Mark

26.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]

Churchill, Winston

28.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

Wilder, Billy

30.

Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant.

Swayze, John

31.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Weil, Simone

32.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Jerrold, Douglas William

33.

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

Milton, John

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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

35.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

36.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

Vico, Giambattista

38.

The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.

Dulles, John Foster

40.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

41.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

42.

The less you know about a subject, the longer it takes you to explain it.

43.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

45.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Hugo, Victor

46.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Capone, Al

47.

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Warner, Charles Dudley

48.

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Custine, Marquis De

49.

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

Forster, Edward M.

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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Twain, Mark