Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Dero A. Saunders (American Journalist)

Dero Ames Saunders (1914–2002) was an American journalist and classical scholar. He was born in Starkville, Mississippi. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he was executive editor of Forbes magazine from 1960–1981, and continued to edit a regular column until 1999.

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Nothing is so corrupting as a great idea whose time is past.
Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Ideas

The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Beliefs

Life is so unfair that one is more likely to get into some sort of trouble than be rewarded if one attempts to do a good deed; many times one spends time and resources to help someone only to be totally ignored with not so much as a thank you.
Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Service

Prejudices are the principles of people we dislike.
Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Prejudice

If it exists, it’s possible.
Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Opportunities

From its very beginnings ambition was a political word, born of the Latin ambitus, the walking around that a Roman politician did when buttering up the voters.
Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Ambition

Poetry is the shortest way of saying something. It lets us express a dime’s worth of ideas, or a quarter’s worth of emotion, with a nickel’s worth of words.
Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Poetry

Getting old is not for sissies.
Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Aging

There is no such thing as a good excuse.
Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Failure

Each man has, each year, his moment of madness, when he ties a rope around his neck, hands the end to his worst enemy, and says “Pull”.
Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Mind

The function of values is to give us the illusion of purpose in life.
Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Values

Why should a country worship another country’s tin gods, when it has tin gods of its own?
Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Religion

The reason history is by turns gripping, boring and threatening is that it is a play in which the characters make up their lines as they go along.
Dero A. Saunders
Topics: History

Illusion is always based on reality, for its strength depends upon its fit with the desires, fears and experiences of countless humans.
Dero A. Saunders

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