Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

For if good fortune makes your friends for you, Ill fortune makes them enemies for sure.

You are the only man in history to every use the Presidency as a stepping stone to greatness.

I want to build to that mogul, legendary level.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you.

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.

I can be a good friend, or a bad enemy.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.