Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Human
  • Ability
  • Choose

• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Ability
  • Greatest
  • Mental

• A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Purpose
  • Sacrifice
  • Innovation

• No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Success
  • Effort
  • Perseverance

• The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Feelings
  • Ability
  • Distance

• Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Power
  • Nature

• As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Always
  • Story
  • Weakness

• I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Love
  • Weakness
  • Meat

• Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Acting
  • Talent
  • Perseverance

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Weakness
  • Too Much
  • Leopard

• Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • May
  • You

• The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Ability
  • Aggressive
  • Respected

• I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Value
  • Confidence
  • Sex

• The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Weapons

• In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Good
  • Long
  • Help

• It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Said
  • Weakness

• If there are no consequences now for breaking the prohibition on chemical weapons, it will be harder to muster an international consensus to ensure that Hezbollah and other terrorist groups are prevented from acquiring or using these weapons themselves.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Now
  • Weapons
  • Consequences

• Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings and insights denied to the intellectual....It was precisely this kind of false belief that made stupid people so stupid. The truth was the clever people had infinitely more resources from which to make the leaps of connection that the world called intuition. What was 'intelligence' after all, but the ability to read into things?

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Ability
  • Insight
  • Leap

• It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only six miles long and two miles wide.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Progress
  • Sacrifice

• Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

  

  Thomas Dewar
  • Pleasure
  • States
  • Caught

• Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinion

• Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Ability
  • Weakness
  • Weapons