Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes." ~ ' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes." -

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?

But if God had wanted us to think with just our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

A man has only one escape from his old self — to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.” Apple’s design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist,” said journalist Clare Boothe Luce, “is that the pessimist is usually better informed.

No good deed goes unpunished.

There are no hopeless situations;there are only people who have grown hopeless about then.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable. ~ Clare Boothe Luce

Don't worry about your studies. When you want to do them well you will do them superbly. But for the moment the main thing is to get what little happiness there is in this wartorn world because "these are only good old days" now.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” —CLARE BOOTHE LUCE When things go wrong, when you experience sudden reversals and disappointments, your natural tendency will be to respond with negativity, fear, and anger. Whenever you feel hurt or threatened by loss or criticism, you react to protect yourself with the fight-or-flight response. As a leader, your first job is to take firm control over your mind and emotions, and then to take control over the situation, in that order. Leaders focus on the future, not the past. They focus on what can be done now to resolve the problem or improve the situation. They focus on what is under their control, their next decisions and actions. You must do the same.

Clare Boothe Luce observed in an article she wrote for Reader’s Digest in 1979, “Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” You must acquire the courage to make difficult decisions.

The frontier was closed, as Clare Boothe Luce wrote half a century earlier, resources were finite, and political systems should be based on an acceptance of those facts.

The first: No good deed goes unpunished. (A phrase, ironically, that was coined by a woman, Clare Boothe Luce.) The

«Un gran hombre es una frase.» Clare Boothe Luce

There was then, an American tradition of morality and virtues. "As Americans," wrote former U.S. Congresswoman and Author Clare Luce Booth, "we can proudly say that the traditional moral values of our society have been a reflection, however imperfect, of this universal morality. All of our great men, all of our heroes, have been exemplars of some, if not all, of these virtues.

There was then, an American tradition of morality and virtues. As Americans, wrote former U.S. Congresswoman and Author Clare Luce Booth, we can proudly say that the traditional moral values of our society have been a reflection, however imperfect, of this universal morality. All of our great men, all of our heroes, have been exemplars of some, if not all, of these virtues.

So now we are ready to ask: In what direction can we say that Americans are going? Are we, as a people, going on the high road of universal morality or on the low road of universal immorality? The question is a crucial one for the future of our country. All history bears witness to the fact that there can be no public virtue without private morality. There can be no good government except in a good society. And there cannot be a good society unless the majority of the individuals in it are at least trying to be good people.

No good deed goes unpunished

El dinero no puede comprar la felicidad, pero puede hacer que te sientas terriblemente cómodo mientras eres desgraciado. Clare Boothe Luce

Clare Boothe Luce was on the Board of Directors of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. Interestingly, that organization was formed in 1975 as an “independent” voice to defend the CIA against its critics.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.” —CLARE BOOTHE LUCE