Top 25 Cecil B Rhodes Quotes
#1. Any day of the week I would choose to be "out" with others and in touch with myself ... then to be "in" with others and out of touch with myself.
Portia Nelson
#2. This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.
Jeffrey Whittam
#3. It's not a fun process. There is no need for the team and a player to be on opposing sides a week or two before spring training. It's good to be on the same page.
Mark Teixeira
#4. To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes
#5. We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.
Cecil Rhodes
#6. Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.
Cecil Rhodes
#7. I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
Cecil Rhodes
#8. The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.
Cecil Rhodes
#9. I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.
Richard Flanagan
#10. I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race ... If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible ...
Cecil Rhodes
#11. Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.
Cecil Rhodes
#13. I have too much work on my hands and I would not be a dutiful husband.
Cecil Rhodes
#14. What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.
Derek Bok
#15. Wherever you turn your eye - except in science - an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.
Cecil Rhodes
#17. The most mind-blowing part of it all was the fact that he seemed to think I was the one thing he needed to make sense of it all.
Kelly Oram
#19. Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen
Cecil Rhodes
#20. Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite ... and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.
Russell M. Nelson
#21. In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets ... The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.
Cecil Rhodes
#22. If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.
Cecil Rhodes
#23. To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.
Cecil Rhodes
#24. Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.
Cecil Rhodes
#25. Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes
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