Motivational Quotes

Nations

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Hope, Bob

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

Moliere

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

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

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

Sigourney, Lydia

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Plato

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

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

10.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

11.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

12.

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

Burton, Pierre

13.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

15.

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

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

18.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

19.

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

Swayze, John

20.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

21.

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

Custine, Marquis De

22.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

24.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Chou En Lai

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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.

33.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

34.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

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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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set -- things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean -- there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.

Herzen, Alexander

37.

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

Bolt, Robert

38.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

39.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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.

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Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

Hochhuth, Rolf

42.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

43.

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

Buechner, Professor William

44.

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

Capone, Al

45.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

46.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

47.

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

48.

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

Acheson, Dean

49.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hubbard, Elbert