Will Durant Quotes

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

The future never just happened. It was created.

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

I didn’t fall in love with it just because it was me playing. I fell in love with it because I’ve got guys like this – like these guys every single day that push me to be the best that I can be.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Whoever want my spot can play me one-on-one for it.

The grass is not always greener on the other side. You learn to appreciate these people.

First off, I'd like to thank God for changing my life. It let me really realize what life is all about. Basketball is just a platform for me to inspire people, and I realize that.

My dream was to become a rec league coach. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay home and help the kids out and be a coach.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

This city, all they want us to be is ourselves. You love us how we are. We’re all a work in progress as men and you still love us and I thank you so much for embracing us.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Last, I just want to thank God again. He's the first and the last. Alpha and Omega. I thank you for saving my life.

All the support from all my friends, All my family over the years, I appreciate it.

This means the world to me that you guys are here with me celebrating with me. Thank you. Thank you. I can’t express it enough.

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

It's hard to play well, but it's easy to work hard.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

I'm always hungry. I want to be the best.

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Liberty is a product of order.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord. I'm keeping strong at it, just trying to make my walk with faith a little better.

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

Basketball is just a platform for me to inspire people.

I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing.