We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life

My Favourite Quotations

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life
when all we need to make us really happy is something to be
enthusiastic about.

Anon

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular."

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares
that it is his duty."

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to
consume wealth without producing it."

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!"

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether
you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Here's the rule for bargains: "Do other men, for they would do you."
That's the true business precept."

Charles Dickens (1812-70)

Some men give up their designs
when they have almost reached the goal,
while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory
by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than before.

Polybius

Far and away the best prize that life offers
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

As you ramble through life, brother, no matter what your goal,
keep your eye upon the doughnut, and not upon the hole

Dr. Murray Banks, quoting a menu

Whether you think you can
or
Whether you think you can't.....

You are right.

Henry Ford

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend: and inside a dog,
it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

Quigley's Law:
Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will
attempt to use it.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Anyone can become ANGRY. That is easy.
But to be angry with the right person,
to the right degree, at the right time,
for the right purpose and in the right way-
that is not easy.

Aristotle

Decision is a sharp knife that cut
clean and straight. Indecision is
a dull one that hacks and tears
and leaves ragged edges behind.

Ian McKeithen

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps;
for he is the only animal that is struck with the
difference between what things are and what they
ought to be.

William Hazlitt in his essay On Wit and Humour
in English Comic Writers (1819)

Luck is the residue of design.

Branch Rickey, general manager
of the Brooklyn Dodgers

Confidence is the feeling you sometimes have
before you fully understand the situation.

Anon

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Margaret Thatcher

It is only the souls that do not Love
that go empty into this world.

Robert H. Benson

Patting yourself on the back
doesn't push you ahead.

Car Wash Philosophy

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then,
is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

Think where man's glory
most begins and ends.
And say my glory was
I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

Remember,
you can't steer a parked car.

Anon

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Discipline is remembering what you want.

David Campbell

Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

Pessimism never won any battle.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

____________ it, you'll never get the Purple Heart
hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!

Lieutenant Colonel Henry P. Crowe
Battle of Guadalcanal, 13 Jan 43

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Indecision is the key to flexibility.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the track.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Happiness is merely the remission of pain.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Things are more like they are today than they ever were before.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
This is as bad as it can get, but don't count on it.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Never wrestle a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
The trouble with life is, you're halfway through it before you
realize it's a do-it-yourself thing.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Youth and skill are no match for experience and treachery.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
No amount of advance planning will ever replace dumb luck.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
No amount of advance planning will ever replace dumb luck.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
The trouble with life is, you're halfway through it before you
realize it's a do-it-yourself thing.

LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Sir Winston Churchill

Towering genius disdains a beaten path.

Abraham Lincoln

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence,
we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Deepak Chopra

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tse

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general;
if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope."
Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Pablo Picasso

We have a problem. "Congratulations."
But it's a tough problem. "Then double congratulations."

W. Clement Stone

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence,
is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Dale Carnegie

People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?"
do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance
of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.

Kim Woo-Choong, Founder and Chairman, Daewoo

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.

Og Mandino

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity.
I was forced to come up the hard way.

J.C. Penney

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Edison

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Edmund Burke

Insist on yourself; never imitate.
Your own gift you can present every moment
with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation;
but of the adopted talent of another you have only
an extemporaneous half possession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To understand the heart and mind of a person,
look not at what s/he has already achieved, but at what s/he aspires to do.

Kahlil Gibran

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Euripides

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything,
and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

de La Rochefoucauld

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always;
this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen of Sweden (1629-89)

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile,
and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Lou Holtz

The most intense conflicts, if overcome,
leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed.
It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration
which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Carl Jung

Faith is an oasis in the heart
which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Kahlil Gibran

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents
which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Horace

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.

Napoleon Hill

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

Montaigne

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths
rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John D. Rockefeller

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do
so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work
will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Edward L. Bernays

The biggest mistake people make in life
is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Malcolm Forbes

Fortune sides with s/he who dares.

Virgil

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Janice Elice Hopkins

I don't like work--no man does
--but what I like is in the work--the chance to find yourself.

Joseph Conrad

One doesn't discover new lands
without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre' Gide

Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble.

Frank Tyger

Few wishes come true by themselves.

June Smith

When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Graham Greene

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much or suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

You must have long term goals
to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Charles C. Noble

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

English Proverb

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Elbert Hubbard

To finish first, you must first finish.

Rick Mears, Indy Car Driver

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

John W. Gardner

The great question is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with failure.

William Shakespeare

The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate.

Thomas J. Watson, Founder of IBM

Most of my advances were by mistake.
You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Buckminster Fuller

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

Wayne Gretzky, Pro Hockey Player

A year from now you will wish you had started today.

Karen Lamb

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Trammell Crow

Decide to love and do what you like.

St. Augustine

Life's most persistent and urgent question is:
What are you doing for others.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Try not to become a person of success,
but rather to become a person of value.

Albert Einstein

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself.

Andre Gide

The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential.
When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

Roger Williams

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Kahlil Gibran

"Successes like pleasing results . . .
Failures like pleasing methods"

Cavett Robert 1908-1997

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life.
Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freer handling.

Goethe

Cut not the wings of your dreams
For they
Are the heartbeat
And the
Freedom of your soul

Flavia

We become what we think about.

Earl Nightingale

I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world
are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want.

George Bernard Shaw

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because
you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

Jerry Gillies

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

Robert Schuller

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

Zig Ziglar

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail
than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Robert Schuller

The obstacle is the path.

Zen Saying

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation.

Robert Schuller

Winners have simply formed the habit
of doing things losers don't like to do.

Albert Gray

Inches make champions.

Vince Lombardi

I could use a hundred people
who don't know there is such a word as impossible.

Henry Ford

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood.
Heat is required to forge anything.
Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Arnold Glasow

Be fanatics.
When it comes to being, doing, and dreaming the best, be maniacs.

A.M. Rosenthal

Have the courage to say no.
Have the courage to face the truth.
Do the right thing because it is right.
These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

W. Clement Stone

You have not lived a perfect day,
unless you've done something for someone
who will never be able to repay you.

Ruth Smeltzer

Love cures people--both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Dr. Carl Menninger

Don't just learn the tricks of the trade.
Learn the trade.

James Bennis

You are not here merely to make a living.
You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply,
with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson

Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

Emerson

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

1. If the enemy is in range, so are you.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

2. Incoming fire has the right of way.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

4. There is always a way.

5. The easy way is always mined.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

7. Professionals are predictable; it's the amateurs that are dangerous.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

8. The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions:
a. when you're ready for them.
b. when you're not ready for them.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

9. Teamwork is essential, it gives them someone else to shoot at.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

11. The enemy diversion you have been ignoring will be the main attack.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

12. A sucking chest wound is nature's way of telling you to slow down.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

13. If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

14. Never draw fire, it irritates everyone around you.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

15. Anything you do can get you shot, including nothing.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

17. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

20. Never forget that your weapon is made by the lowest bidder.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

21. Friendly fire isn't.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

22. If the sergeant can see you, so can the enemy.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

23. Never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lie down, never
stay awake when you can sleep.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

24. The most dangerous thing in the world is a second lieutenant with a
map and a compass.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

27. Remember, a retreating enemy is probably just falling back and
regrouping.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

28. If at first you don't succeed call in an air-strike.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

31. The enemy never watches until you make a mistake.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

32. One enemy soldier is never enough, but two is entirely too many.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

36. Field experience is something you don't get until just after you need
it.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

37. Interchangeable parts aren't.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

38. No matter which way you have to march, its always uphill.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

39. If enough data is collected, a board of inquiry can prove ANYTHING.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

47. The tough part about being an officer is that the troops don't know
what they want, but they know for certain what they DON'T want.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

48. To steal information from a person is called plagiarism. To steal
information from the enemy is called gathering intelligence.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

51. When you have sufficient supplies & ammo, the enemy takes 2 weeks to
attack. When you are low on supplies & ammo the enemy decides to
attack that night.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

52. The newest and least experienced soldier will usually win the Medal Of
Honor.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

53. A Purple Heart just goes to prove that were you smart enough to think
of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

57. If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

58. When in doubt empty the magazine.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

59. No plan survives the first contact, intact.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

61. The important things are always simple.

62. The simple things are always hard.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

66. Things that must be together to work, usually can't be shipped
together.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

68. Tracers work both ways.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

69. The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming
friendly fire.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

71. When both sides are convinced they are about to lose, they're both
right.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which

takes a little longer.

George Santayana

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is

made known silently.

Agnes DeMille

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Earl of Chesterfield

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

Shallow men believe in luck.  Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never make a promise in haste.

Mahatma Gandhi

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.

Tom Peters

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.

Richard Armour

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

Elbert Hubbard

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvellous feeling.

Barbara Walters

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement of Alexandria

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Thomas Browne

The confidence which we have in ourselves engenders the greatest part of that which we have in others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Jean de La Bruyere

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Adlai Stevenson

The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Ann Landers

Be not curious in unnecessary matters.

Apocrypha

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

George Savile

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Joseph Conrad

Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run denied.

Eudora Welty

Enlarge your consciousness. If your consciousness is small, you will experience smallness in every department of your life.

Robert Pante

Keep your faith in all beautiful things: in the sun when it is hidden, in the spring when it is gone.

Roy R. Gilson

To love one's self is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

Never educate a child to be a gentlemen or a lady only, but to be a man, and a woman.

Herbert Spencer

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

The more you study, the more you find out you don't know, but the more you study, the closer you come.

Cozy Cole

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Benjamin Franklin

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

French Proverb

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.

Henry Becque

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understanding; and he is the truest philosopher who can forget himself.

William Hazlitt

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Samuel Butler

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Work helps to preserve us from three great evils--weariness, vice, and want.

Voltaire

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

Thomas Paine

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.

Charlotte Brontë

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it.

Hannah More

That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Thomas Edison

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Samuel Johnson

The heart has arguments with which the logic of the mind is not acquainted.

Blaise Pascal

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Arthur Conan Doyle

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The test and the use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Jacques Barzun

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.

Stephen R. Covey

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

John Foster Dulles

Look to this day
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today, well lived,
Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.

Sanskrit Proverb

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.

Lord Chesterfield

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson

I like business because it is competitive, because it rewards deeds rather than words. I like business because it compels earnestness and does not permit me to neglect today's task while thinking about tomorrow. I like business because it undertakes to please, not reform; because it is honestly selfish, thereby avoiding hypocrisy and sentimentality. I like business because it promptly penalizes mistakes, shiftlessness and inefficiency, while rewarding well those who give it the best they have in them. Lastly, I like business because each day is a fresh adventure.

R. H. Cabell

Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It's the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start, no matter what the past has been. It's today that is the paramount problem always. Yesterday is but history.

George Matthew Adams

Good manners are like traffic rules for society.

Michael Levine

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Edmund Spenser

I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

Wendell L. Willkie

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Win-win sees life as a cooperative, not a competitive arena.

Stephen R. Covey

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.

George Eliot

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.

Washington Irving

The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Douglas Noel Adams

It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

William Somerset Maugham

A "No", uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes", merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Even nectar is poison if taken in excess.

Hindu Proverb

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Stephen R. Covey

He who has learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Aristotle

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Faith Baldwin

Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.

Daniel Webster