Motivational Quotes

Nations

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. [About Russia]

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Sellar, W. C.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.

De Delloy

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Plato

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. [About Russia]

Hope, Bob

Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

12.

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

13.

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

Wilder, Billy

14.

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.

15.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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.

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

21.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

Twain, Mark

24.

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

25.

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

Truman, Harry S

26.

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.

27.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

28.

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

Burton, Pierre

29.

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

30.

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

Huxley, Aldous

31.

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. [About Russia]

Marx, Karl

32.

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

33.

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.

34.

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

Custine, Marquis De

35.

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

Acheson, Dean

36.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

Bolt, Robert

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

40.

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

Chou En Lai

41.

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

42.

Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

43.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

46.

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

47.

The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.

Buechner, Professor William

48.

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

49.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

50.

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