|"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 Kindleberger |"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 sork 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 enternal 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