|"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
