Quotes about Exception

Writer, Journalist, Poet

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

Exception - Nervousness - Willing

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Exception

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Albert Camus

Philosopher, Author, Journalist

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

Exception - Heavens - Human - Innocence - Wants - Whole

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Louise Hay

Author

Every thought and every word you speak is an affirmation. So why not choose to use only positive affirmations to create an exceptional life? I know you can do it!

Exception - Speaking

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Alice Walker

Novelist, Poet, Activist

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Exception - Ownership - Possibility

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Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

Deal - Deceiving - Exception - Expectation - Good - Heavens - Lie

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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Exception

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Maya Angelou

Poet, Singer, Writer, Civil Rights Activist

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

Exception - Giving - Learning - Teaching

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Exception - Fame - Honor - Loss - Man - Meaning - Pessimism - Reality

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Alexander Hamilton

Economist, Lawyer, Military Commander, Founding Father of the United States

The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.

Authority - Certainty - Constitution - Courting - Essence - Exception - Independence - Judging - Kindness - Limits - Manifestation - Practice - Privilege - Right

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Bill Gates

Business Magnate, Investor, Humanitarian

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Exception - Teenagers

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Democritus

Philosopher

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Emptiness - Exception - Existence - Nothing - Opinion

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

Animals - Disease - Exception - Fall - God - Man

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Napoleon Hill

Leader, Writer, Author

People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.

Decision - Exception - Failing - Habit - People - Reaching

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Carl von Clausewitz

Military Commander, Military Theorist

Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement and confidence we can be sure that we are in the presence of exceptional ability.

Ability - Average - Danger - Exception - Individual - Mindset

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Lord Byron

Poet, Politician, Revolutionary

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Exception

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George Orwell

Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic

Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

Economy - Exception - Feelings - Human - Mindset - Oneself - Sound - Wants

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.

Certainty - Exception - State - Taking

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Carl von Clausewitz

Military Commander, Military Theorist

It is paltry philosophy if in the old-fashioned way one lays down rules and principles in total disregard of moral values . As soon as these appear one regards them as exceptions, which gives them a certain scientific status, and thus makes them into rules. Or again one may appeal to genius , which is above all rules; which amounts to admitting that rules are not only made for idiots , but are idiotic in themselves.

Certainty - Exception - Giving - Idiot - Making - Morals - Philosophy - Principle - Value

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?'

Consciousness - Creating - Death - Doing - Exception - Knowledge - Nightmare

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