When an empire fears for its survival, its prime has passed.

Quote by Martin Dansky

Topics: Survival Quotes

Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.

Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.

It is not only easier to find fault with another person than to examine one's...

It is not only easier to find fault with another person than to examine one's...

Being sincere to earn a woman's respect, doesn't guarantee an equal return.

Being sincere to earn a woman's respect, doesn't guarantee an equal return.

Some sincerity will serve well in the long run but total sincerity is often detrimental.

Some sincerity will serve well in the long run but total sincerity is often detrimental.

Whoever says artists can't deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing...

Whoever says artists can't deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing...

(On sleep) Is it just the interval of life rudely interrupted by the static of...

(On sleep) Is it just the interval of life rudely interrupted by the static of...

Once thrift shops hit your district it is a good sign that more citizens are...

Once thrift shops hit your district it is a good sign that more citizens are...

Look to the next world for perfection, look at this one for its opposite.

Look to the next world for perfection, look at this one for its opposite.

Thrift shop popularity parallels increased poverty.

Thrift shop popularity parallels increased poverty.

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater...

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater...

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient

If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision...

If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision...

In wealth, many friends; in poverty, not even relatives.

In wealth, many friends; in poverty, not even relatives.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that...

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that...

If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only

If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to get new...

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to get new...

Poor people entertain with the heart

Poor people entertain with the heart

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty...

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty...

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the...

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the...

True poverty does not come from God.

True poverty does not come from God.