Maintain Quotes
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I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.
Abraham Lincoln
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Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.
Blaise Pascal
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I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.
Abraham Lincoln
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They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.
Plutarch
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A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.
Aristotle
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I maintain that the maxim is still to be faster than the others.
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
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It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
Plutarch
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I'm pretty much on the "eat whatever you can diet," just to get calories in, so I can maintain myself throughout the season.
Stephen Curry
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Do not believe that you alone can be right. The man who thinks that, The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul - A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
Sophocles
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We want to maintain the strategy at this very moment which is producing results rapidly.
Javier Solana
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You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.
Daniel Lapin
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And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I said above, if a prince wishes to maintain the state, he is often obliged not to be good; because whenever that group which you believe you need to support you is corrupted, whether it be the common people, the soldiers, or the nobles, it is to your advantage to follow their inclinations in order to satisfy them; and then good actions are your enemy.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli