98 Quotes About Practicality
- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man of action pursuing practical goals of personal happiness and wealth or the philosophic man who lives in a world of theoretical and metaphysical ideas? We ascribe the value quotient to our lives by making decisions that we score as either valid or invalid based upon our personal ethics and how we think and behave.
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- Author Niccolò Machiavelli
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..it happens in all human affairs that we never seek to escape one mischief without falling into another. Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage, and in accepting a less evil as a good.
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- Author Criss Jami
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A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
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- Author Kit Williams
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Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?
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- Author James Dewar
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Books and minds only work when they're open.
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- Author Stephen L. Carter
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Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.
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- Author John Adams
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A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
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- Author Theodore Roosevelt
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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.
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- Author Marty Rubin
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You can't stop the storm from coming so you better run for cover.
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