"The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum." Menander
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it." Clarence Darrow
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." John F. Kennedy
"They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work." Casey Stengel
"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear." Dick Cavett
"The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success." Unknown
"When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision." Lord Falkland
"By the time we've made it, we've had it." Malcolm Forbes
"The Trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in a hurry." John Jensen
"Life is thirst." Leonard Michaels
" A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." St. Francis of Assisi
"Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams." Emerson
"When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something." Robert Browning
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." James Crook
"Example is contagious behavior." Charles Reade
"All man's gains are fruit of venturing." Herodotus
"No one grows old by living--only by losing interest in living." Marie Beynon Ray
"Where there is unity there is always victory." Publilius Syrus
"Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile." Mary Beard
"Every noble work is at first impossible." Carlyle
"Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up." James A. Garfield
"The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it." Voltaire
"In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." Adam Smith
"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true." Honore de Balzac
"My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner." Cicero
"A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady." Voltaire
"The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it." Voltaire
"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due." William Ralph Inge
"Man is what he believes." Anton Chekhov
"The same hammer that breaks the glass forges the steel." Russian Proverb
"Better to do a little well, than a great deal badly." Socrates
"Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive." George Knight
"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters." Nathaniel Emmons
"If we don't discipline ourselves the world will do it for us." William Feather
"Dreams never hurt anybody if he keeps working right behind the dream to make as much of it come real as he can." Frank W. Woolworth
"The price of power is responsibility for the public good." Winthrop W. Aldrich
"The more noise a man or a motor makes the less power there is available." W. R. McGeary
"It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause." Pascal
"There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed." Buddha
"He that wrestled with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." Burke
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the stars.: Henry Van Dyke
"Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life." Woodrow Wilson
"Don't knock your competitors. By boosting others you will boost yourself. A little competition is a good thing and severe competition is a blessing. Thank God for competition." Jacob indleberger
"Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect." Marcus Aurelius
"No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!" Gerard
"In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith." Schlegel
"You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you." Tiorio
"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability." Flower A. Newhouse
"One principal reason why men are so often useless it, that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits." Emmons
"How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people." Edward F. Benson
"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears." A. C. Benson
"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain." Epictetus
"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." Rudyard Kipling
"A man's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character -- how he makes it and how he spends it." James Moffatt
"I criticize by creation, not by finding fault." Cicero
"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task." William James
"No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable." L. E. Landon
"Democracy is ever eager for rapid progress, and the only progress which can be rapid is progress down hill." Sir James Jeans
"Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God." Milton S. Hershey
"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent." Irving Berlin
"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." Logan Pearsall Smith
"Chance favors the prepared mind." Louis Pasteur
"Queer thing, but we always think every other man's job is easier than our own. And the better he does it, the easier it looks." Eden Phillpotts
"By the street of By-and-By, one arrives at the house of Never." Cervantes
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." Seneca
"From none but self expect applause." Burton
"Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment." Otway
"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it." Confucius
"People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it." Howard W. Newton
"Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art." Bliss Carman
"Genius is eternal patience." Michaelangelo
"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well." Jean Jacques Rousseau
"If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride." Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred." W. M. Taylor
"Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." John Charles Salak
"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does." Josh Billings
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." George Bernard Shaw
"There is a divinity that shapes our ends -- but we can help by listening for Its voice." Kathleen Norris
"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time." Voltaire
"Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion; while nothing is so foolish and baseless." J. G. Holland
"As a man handles his troubles during the day, he goes to bed at night a General, Captain or Private." Ed. Howe
"A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led." Alexander Cannon
"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools." Spanish Proverb
"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away." Plutarch
"When you hire people who a smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are." R. H. Grant
"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress." Thomas A. Edison
"The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons." George T. Hewitt
"All mankind is divided into three classes: Those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move." Arabian Proverb
"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people." John D. Rockefeller
"This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in." Dickens
"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future." Anatole France
"A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit." Erasmus
"There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men." Randall Jacobs
"A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He's got to keep on delivering as he goes along." Carl Hubbell
"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips." Goldsmith
"Statistics are no substitute for judgment." Henry Clay
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." Winston Churchill
"If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor -- poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living." Herbert N. Casson
"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell." Andrew Carnegie
"Go outdoors and get rid of nerves." Dr. Frank Crane
"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is supply light and not heat." Woodrow Wilson
"We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns." Orison S. Marden
"If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot." Bunyan
"I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor." Lord Nelson
"High ethical standards bring about efficient business methods." Watts
"I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week." Sir Robert Peel
"People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness." John Wanamaker
"When you cannot make pure goods and full weight, go to something that is honest, even if it is breaking stone." James Gamble
"Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe." Orison Sweet Marden
"You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish; and if it be so, why not now, and where you stand?" Robert Louis Stevenson
"There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself." Louis XIV
"Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar." E. H. Harriman
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it." Leonardo
"Behind an able man there are always other able men." Chinese Proverb
"We are born for co-operation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids and the upper and lower jaws." Marcus Aurelius
"He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself." Seneca
"Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth." Horace Fletcher
"Activity back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of genius." James A. Worsham
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." William James
"The successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at." Don Marquis
"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." William Pitt
"We cannot all be masters." Shakespeare
"Morale is faith in the man at the top." Albert S. Johnstone
"No one grows old by living -- only be losing interest in living." Marie Ray
"Successful salesmanship is 90% preparation and 10% presentation." Bertrand R. Canfield
"In making living today, many no longer leave room for life." Joseph Sizoo, D.D.
"He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes." Chinese Proverb
"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money." Thomas Jefferson
"Life is very interesting, if you make mistakes." Georges Carpentier
"Life is too short to be little." Disraeli
"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them." Cavour
"There is one rule for industrialists and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." Henry Ford

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