FAMOUS QUOTES
~~~Great quotes that can liven up your next speaking engagement (or maybe your next email)!~~~
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“I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. ~ Sam Ewing
"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." ~Robert Benchley.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." ~Derek Bok, Harvard University President
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. ~ William A. Ward
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. ~ Ambrose Bierce
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." ~ Buddha
"Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances... If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today." ~ James C. Hume
“Remember, time is money. He that can earn ten shillings a day by his labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle, one half of that day, though he spends but sixpence during his diversion or idleness, ought not to reckon that the only expense; he has really spent, or rather thrown away, five shillings besides.” ~ Ben Franklin
“Patience can conquer destiny”
“A silent mouth is sweet to hear”
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." ~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) French general and emperor
"A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) U.N. diplomat, humanitarian, U.S. First Lady
"Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action,
and purpose." ~ Lance Armstrong (1971 - ) U.S. cyclist, 7-time winner of the Tour de France & cancer survivor
"There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction." ~ Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Austro-Hungarian novelist and short story writer
"To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that." ~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Macedonian missionary and
Nobel Peace Prize winner
"Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." ~ St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) Italian friar, founder of the Franciscan order
"To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything
be more fun?" ~ Katharine Graham (1917-2001) American journalist and publisher
"There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer." ~ Peter Drucker (1909-2005) Austrian-born management consultant and writer
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) 32nd president of the United States
"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do." ~ Lucille Ball (1911-1989)
American comedienne
"99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." ~ George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
American agricultural chemist
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." ~ Duke Ellington (1899-1974) American composer and musician
"Riches adorn the dwelling; virtue adorns the person." ~ Chinese proverb
"Man is the only animal who blushes; or needs to." ~ Mark Twain
"All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word - faith." ~ Napoleon
"Life will double in enjoyment when you finally realize that…NOW IS YOU TIME." ~ Dr. Louis Binstock
"Change is the essence of progress." ~ Irene McDermott
"I will not talk against my brother until I have walked two miles in his moccasins." ~ Dakota Indian proverb
"I had to succeed, because I finally ran out of things that didn't work." ~ Thomas Edison (after his 10,000th attempt to invent the incandescent light)
"Live your life every day as though you're accountable to someone at the end of the evening. You are, of course -- you're accountable to yourself." ~ Susan Baughman
"Retirement: it's here sooner than you expect and lasts longer than you planned for!" ~ Susan Baughman
"I am the master of my fate. I am the Captain of my soul." ~ William Henley
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." ~ Henry Ford, American industrialist, inventor
"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." ~ Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist
"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." ~ Walt Disney
“You can see a lot just by looking.” ~ Yogi Berra
Winners are made from something they have deep inside of them; a desire, a dream, a vision. Your attitude determines how well you do ~ Mohammad Ali
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ~ Milton Berle
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. ~ Booth Tarkington
Never say no when a client asks for something -- even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterward to explain that it was not possible. ~ Cesar Ritz, Hotel Chain Founder
Good teaching is one quarter preperation and three quarters theater. ~ Gail Godwin, Author
In a letter written to some less-than-ethical businessmen: "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I will not sue you, for the law takes too long. I will ruin you." ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt
The chief value of money lis in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. ~ H.L. Mencken
I don't like money. I don't like aspirin. But, it seems, I always need both, sometimes for the same reason. ~ Anon
When a fellow says, "It ain't the money, but the principle of the thing," it's the money. ~ Elbert Hubbard, American publisher
We all have the means to become prosperous. We have to find the balance between our wealth and our needs. ~ Robert Bourassa; Premier, Quebec province
After earning and losing millions of dollars: Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly. ~ George Raft, Actor
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. ~ Heinrich Heine, German poet
"Beware of little expenses: A small leak will sink a great ship." ~ Benjamin Franklin
“He who has a strong enough WHY can bear almost any HOW”. ~ Fredrich Nietzsche
“Educations’ purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” ~ Malcolm Forbes
“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” ~ Steven Wright
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ~ Edmund Burke
“The time which we have at our disposal everyday is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habits fill what time remain." ~ Marcel Proust
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." ~ Unknown
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