black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.

John Quincy Adams

Related Topics

Appearance Defeat

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Myself Poet Warrior
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Courage Difficult Inspirational Magic Perseverance
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Beginning End Politics Slave
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Charity Compassionate Human Man
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Improvement Worthy
If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Existence Fundamental Independence Principle Slave Truth Wrong
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Heaven Herself Myself Success Wrong
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Difficult Inspirational Patience Perseverance
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Alone Company Poet Yourself
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Goodness Right Spiritual
Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Justice Man War
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Beyond God Greatness Law Power Service Soul Thinking
It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Action Improvement Mindset Moments Myself Time
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Action Dream Inspirational Leadership Learning Yourself
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Believe Honesty Man Philosophy Worst
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Promise Slave

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes