| "Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it." »James A. Garfield |
| "The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong." »Pierre Charron |
| "Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself." »J. B. Priestley |
| "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." »Henry Ford |
| "Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people." »Lillian Eichler Watson |
| "The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning." »Winston Churchill |
| "Something deeply hidden had to be behind things." »Albert Einstein |
| "There it was, hidden in alphabetical order." »Rita Holt |
| "The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all." »Ovid |
| "There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth." »Venezuelan Proverb |
| "Dance is the hidden language of the soul." »Martha Graham |
| "Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement." »William Shakespeare |
| "Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul." »Erich Fromm |
| "In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides." »Alcaeus |
| "Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone." »Roy R. Gilson |
| "When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Latet anguis in herba. (There's a snake hidden in the grass)" »Virgil |
| "Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them." »Anne-Sophie Swetchine |
| "We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable." »Eugene Forsey |
| "Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well." »A Bartlett Giamatti |
| "The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith." »John Foster Dulles |
| "Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life,--there, if one must speak out, the real man." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure." »Emma Goldman |
| "Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked." »Lord Chesterfield |
| "You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a patch for" »Dag Hammarskjld |
| "It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason." »Lord Acton |
| "Sometimes the world seemed to come with subtitles, like a foreign film. So help her, sometimes people's hidden motives, their lies, their rationalizations, were so pitifully apparent that Sophia felt she could just sit and read them." »Andrew Klaven |
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