I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
Winston Churchill

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mohandas Gandhi

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mohandas Gandhi

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mohandas Gandhi

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
W. C. Fields

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David Thoreau

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
Mitch Hedberg

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu