Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes

Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'

Moral considerations must outweigh the mere blind struggle for existence in human affairs.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress..

The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it."

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; this is knowledge."

We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want. "

A true love has no place for lust."