The most important thing about having goals is having one.
-- Lord Acton
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely
-- Douglas Adams
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
--Franklin P. Adams
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love just makes the ride worthwhile.
-- Henry Adams
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education
-- John Quincy Adams
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- Scott Adams
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only de-motivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
-- John Akers
Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.
– Herm Albright
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
-- M.H. Alderson
If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.
-- Fred Allen
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
-- Woody Allen
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.
Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman.
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
-- Henri-Frederic Amiel
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
-- Mario Andretti
If everything's under control, you're going too slow.
-- Marcel Archard
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
-- Aristotle
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; this is not easy.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Dick Armey
You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
-- Neil Armstrong
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
-- Marykay Ash
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
-- Isaac Asimov
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
-- Marcus Aurelius
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
-- Francis Bacon
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
--Tallulah Bankhead
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
I'll come up and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
-- P.T. Barnum
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.
-- James M. Barrie
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
-- Dave Barry
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
--Candace Bastanchury
Get everything you need, and then give it up for what you want. Then you can
say you have had a fulfilling life.
-- John Beecher
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
-- Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
-- Betty Bender
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
-- Robert F. Bennett
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
-- Warren G. Bennis
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
-- Henri Bergson
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
-- Irving Berlin
Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.
-- Hector Berlioz
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
--Yogi Berra
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
You can observe a lot by just watching.
We made too many wrong mistakes.
If you come to a fork in the road, take it
We have deep depth.
-- Josh Billings
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
-- Billy Bishop
On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.
-- Otto von Bismarck
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
-- Paxton Blair
There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibilities.
-- Kenneth Blanchard
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
-- Block's Murphy's Law
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
-- Niels Bohr
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
There are two kinds of truths: small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another great truth.
-- Alan Boinus
If it's free, don't buy it.
One day, each of us will have his own area code.
-- Derek Bok
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
-- Edward de Bono
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
-- Elias Boudinot
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.
-- Ray Bradbury
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
-- General Omar Bradley
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
-- Phillips Brooks
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers
Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.
-- Dorothea Broude
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
-- Henry Brougham
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-- Charles Brower
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The next time you face a customer who has every right to be upset, say something like this: 'I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were you, I'd feel exactly the same way. What would you like for me to do?' These are magical, healing words, and you'll be surprised at how reasonable people become when they believe you are on their side.
If you are angry, why not try this. Write a letter. Pour out all of your feelings, describe your anger and disappointment. Don't hold anything back. Then put the letter in a drawer. After two days, take it out and read it. Do you still want to send it? I've found that anger and pie crusts soften after two days.
When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
You either make dust or eat dust.
-- Les Brown
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
-- A. Whitney Brown
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
-- William Jennings Bryant
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
-- Paul Bear Bryant
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
-- Pearl S. Buck
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
-- William F. Buckley Jr.
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
-- Ferris Bueller
Life moves pretty fast, If you don't take a look around once and awhile, you could miss it.
-- Jimmy Buffett
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
-- Christopher P. Buonanno
Life is as a jelly roll. When you think you have it eaten, it comes out the other end.
-- Edmund Burke
Good order is the foundation of all things.
-- Dr. David M. Burns
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.
-- George Burns
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
-- Charles Buxton
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
-- Lord Byron
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
ames B. Cabell
The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
-- Julius Caesar
I came, I saw, I conquered.
-- Michael Caine
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
-- Arthur Calwell
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
-- Simon Cameron
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
-- Joseph Campbell
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
-- Eddie Cantor
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
-- Al Capone
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
-- Thomas Carlyle
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
-- Andrew Carnegie
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
-- Dale Carnegie
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
-- Rosalynn Carter
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
-- Carlos Castaneda
The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
-- Dick Cavett
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
-- Viscount Cecil
Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
-- Charles A. Cerami
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
-- Joseph Chamberlian
Learn and think imperially.
-- Richard Chamberland
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
-- Kyle Chandler
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
-- W. E. Channing
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
-- Maurice Chevalier
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
-T'ao Ch'ien
Just surrender to the cycle of things, Give yourself to the waves of the Great Change, And when it is time to go, then simply go, Without any unnecessary fuss."
-- Chilton
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
-- Chinese Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat
Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, `This was their finest hour´
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
I like a man who grins when he fights.
-- Cicero
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
In time of war the law falls silent
-- Arthur C Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
--Frances Clark
There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on
the same one."
-- Georges Clemenceau
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
-- Mark A. Clement
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.
-- Peter Cochrane
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
-- Samuel Coleridge
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
-- Confucius
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
-- Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
-- Todd Coomber
Good looks open doors, but they don't keep you in the room.
-- Chad Coombs
Memories of today, brings legends for tomorrow.
-- Michael Corleone
Never hate you enemies, it affects you judgment.
-- Bill Cosby
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-- E. Joseph Cossman
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
-- Stephen Covey
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
-- Thomas Cowan
The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.
-- George Crane
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.
-- Marie Curie
One never notices what has been done. one can only see what remains to be done
Abba Eban
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
-- Thomas A. Edison
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
– Tryon Edwards
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world
Imagination is more important than knowledge
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth
Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to enhance all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough
The important thing is not to stop questioning
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If I had only known. I would have become a locksmith.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a
prisoner's chains.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let
them have it.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
-- T.S. Eliot
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- Walter Elliott
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its
members.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly ads to our power and enlarges our field of action.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The reward of a thing well done is to have it done.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
A man is known by the books he reads.
-- Epictetus
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
-- Desiderius Erasmus
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
-- John Erskine
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
-- Susan Ertz
Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
-- Marie Ebner-Eschenbach,
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
-- Euripides
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
-- Richard Exely
Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does!
Nan Fairbrother
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.
-- William Feather
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
-- Jules Feiffer
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
-- Jerry Della Femina
I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.
-- Richard Fenyman
What did you ask at school today?
-- W.C. Fields
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. no use being a damned fool about it.
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
-- Ken Flaton
If you sit down and don't see a fish at the table, the fish is you.
-- Malcolm S. Forbes
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
-- Henry Ford
Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
Those who think they can and those who think they can't are both right.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
-- Eugene Forsey
I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.
-- Anatole France
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
-- Francisco Franco
I am responsible only to God and history.
-- Benjamin Franklin
The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Well done is better than well said.
-- Milton Friedman
I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.
History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.
-- Erich Fromm
Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it.
-- Robert Frost (1874-1963)
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
A liberal is man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence.
-- Buckminster Fuller
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
-- Millard Fuller
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
John Kenneth Gabraith
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
-- Indira Gandhi
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
-- Mohandas Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Mark Garcia
Steps are good, too many steps are bad. Elevators are better
-- Michael J. Gelb
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.
Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.
Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.
-- David Lloyd George
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
-- André Gide
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
-- George Gilder
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.
--Arnold Glasow
One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
-- E.M. Glenn
If you want to piss with the big dogs, you'd better learn to lift your leg first; otherwise you just might get pissed on.
-- Arthur Godfrey
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev
Life punishes those who come too late
-- Al Gore
I took the initiative in creating the Internet
-- Senator Phil Gramm
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain ordinary people.
-- Kevin Grant
I would rather die fighting than fight dying.
-- Harry Gray
No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.
-- Sidney Greenberg
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
-- Geof Greenleaf
Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.
A man is measured by the size of things that anger him.
-- Robert Greenleaf
Good leaders must first become good servants.
-- Greek Proverb
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
-- Wayne Gretzky
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
-- Matt Groening
When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
-- Sacha Guitry
The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
H.R. Haldeman
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
-- Robert Half
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognizeability.
-- Alexander Hamilton
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
--Hannibal (247-183 B.C.)
We will either find a way or make one.
-- John Hardwick
Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.
-- Richard Harkness
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
– Sydney J. Harris
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
-- Paul Harvey
In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.
-- Coleman Hawking
If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.
-- Stephen Hawking
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all.
-- F.A. Hayek
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
-- Thomas Hayes
Your goal in life should be to never retire, but always have the option to.
-- William Hazlitt
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
-- Katherine Hepburn
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
-- George Herbert
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
-- Heraclitus
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
-- Don Herold
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
-- Howard Hendricks
Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential
-- Herman Hesse
You must not give way to desires which you do not believe in
-- James Hetfield, Metallica
It's all fun and games, until someone loses an eye.
-- Tom Hirshfield
If you don't ask why this? often enough, somebody will ask why you?
-Alfred Hitchcock
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like."
-- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
All great world shaking events have been brought about, not by written matter, but by the spoken word
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
Today Europe tomorrow the world
Strength lies not in defense but in attack.
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
-- Eric Hoffer
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men have something worth fighting for, they do not feel like fighting.
-- John Andrew Holmes
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.
-- Lou Holtz
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
-- Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, USN
You manage things; you lead people.
-- Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
-- Kin Hubbard
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men
-- Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
-- Hubert Humphrey
Behind every successful man stand a surprised mother-in-law.
-- Christine M. Huppert
Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know what they are going through, and they may need that smile. And treasure it.
-- Robert Hutchins
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Aldous Huxley
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
ICHING Taoist book of wisdom
Coming to an impasse, change, having changed, you will get through
-- Lee Iacocca
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
Andrew Jackson
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
One man with courage makes a majority.
-- William James
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Be not afraid of life.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-- Japanese Proverb
When you have completed 95% of your journey you are halfway there.
--Thomas Jefferson
I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender. I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year would, in case of war, be hard on us. But not so hard as ten wars instead of one. For wars could be reduced in that proportion; besides that the State governments would be free to lend their credit in borrowing quotas.
I place economy among the first and important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servility crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity.
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.
If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, to many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.
When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
I cannot live without books.
-- Jerome K. Jerome
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-- Pope John XXIII
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
-- Samuel Johnson
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-- Donald P. Jones
The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them.
-- W. Alton Jones
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.
-- Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
-- Joakim Jonsson
Don't do today what you can put off till tomorrow
Andrew Jackson
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
One man with courage makes a majority.
-- William James
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Be not afraid of life.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-- Japanese Proverb
When you have completed 95% of your journey you are halfway there.
--Thomas Jefferson
I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender. I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year would, in case of war, be hard on us. But not so hard as ten wars instead of one. For wars could be reduced in that proportion; besides that the State governments would be free to lend their credit in borrowing quotas.
I place economy among the first and important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servility crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity.
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.
If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, to many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.
When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
I cannot live without books.
-- Jerome K. Jerome
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-- Pope John XXIII
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
-- Samuel Johnson
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-- Donald P. Jones
The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them.
-- W. Alton Jones
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.
-- Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
-- Joakim Jonsson
Don't do today what you can put off till tomorrow
