Quotes by : Nicholas Murray Butler

Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of....

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous....

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

Necessity does the work of courage.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about....

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.