62 Quotes Found
"We work to become, not to acquire."
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."
"Live truth instead of professing it."
"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher."
"The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner."
"He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much."
"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it."
"The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture."
"We are punished by our sins, not for them."
"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."
"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success."
"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition."
"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself."
"This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
"Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake."
"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia."
"Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away."
"The love we give away is the only love we keep."
"Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it."
"Life is just one damned thing after another."
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one."
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."
"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence."
"The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it."
"Men are only as great as they are kind."
"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."
"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace."
"Life in abundance comes only through great love."
"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares."
"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."
"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."
"If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive."
"God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree."
"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."
"The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
"Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself."
"Responsibility is the price of freedom."
"Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness."
"The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."
"The thing we fear we bring to pass."
"Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority."
"Fear clogs faith liberates."
"The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it."
"Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure."
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."
"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience."
"Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death."
"Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly."
"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."
"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."
"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."
"Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things."
"The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination."
"Art is not a thing it is a way."
"Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer."