Temporary Quotes

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

Give, Liberty, Deserve

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

Pain, May, Place

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway

War, Political, Nation

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Evil, Violence

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Success, Men

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, While, Changed

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi

Success, Family, Ignore

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
Marilyn Monroe

Fame, Bit, Warmth

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats

Him, Through, Joy

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill

Often, Defeat, Misfortune

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley

Failure, Teacher, End

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce

Love, Marriage, Insanity

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
Martin Luther

End, Justice, Die

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

Pain, Forever, Quitting

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Milton Friedman

Government, Nothing, Permanent

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Bertrand Russell

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant

Giving, Often, Makes

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis Waitley

Success, Change, Failure

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
Mason Cooley

Good, Create, Parties

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell

Politics, Good, Wise

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
Alicia Machado

Beauty, Mind, Lifetime

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
William Arthur Ward

Time, Wise, Learned

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Josh Billings

Best, Pride, Wants

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
Doris Lessing

Political, Free, Tell

Pain is temporary, film is forever.
Michael J. Fox

Pain, Film, Forever

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.
Bo Bennett

Rich, Place, Rather

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
Billy Sunday

Good, Tell, Bath

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.
Danielle Steel

Love, Nice, Important

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.
Martin Feldstein

Work, Government, Growth

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