Lasting Quotes

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. View quote
Edmund Waller
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. View quote
Andrew Jackson
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians. View quote
William Blake
I have made a monument more lasting than bronze. View quote
Horace
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence. View quote
Sigmund Freud
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men. View quote
Alva Myrdal
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. (William Hazlitt)
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. View quote
Maria Montessori
Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection. View quote
Beatrice Arthur
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal woundthat he will never get over it. View quote
Robert Frost
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is alright, as long your values don't change. View quote
Jane Goodall
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. View quote
Joseph Addison
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. View quote
Kate Chopin
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. View quote
Johan Huizinga
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. View quote
Anthony Robbins
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises. View quote
Vitruvius
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. (Muhammad Iqbal)
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. View quote
Salvador Dalí
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason. View quote
Immanuel Kant