Motivational Quotes

Public

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

- Breton, Andre

Best Quotes about Public

1.

You're not an M.P., you're a gastronomic pimp.

Bevan, Aneurin

2.

The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

Keats, John

3.

Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Wilde, Oscar

4.

The public seldom forgive twice.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

5.

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

Woolf, Virginia

6.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Nixon, Richard M.

7.

If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be.

Richard, Cliff

8.

The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.

Chomsky, Noam

9.

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

Byrne, Gabriel

10.

I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project.

Kennedy, John F.

11.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

Chandler, Raymond

13.

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

Jackson, Jesse

14.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Clark, Ramsey

15.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

Hazlitt, William

16.

The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

Dickens, Charles

19.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Bancroft, George

20.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

21.

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

Breton, Andre

22.

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

Shaw, George Bernard