It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Ability

God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Achievement

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Action

Allow motion to equal emotion.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Action

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Anticipation

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Appreciation

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Attitude

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Books - Reading

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Character

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Charity

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Civilization

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Committees and Meetings

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Competition

It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Compromise

What people need and what they want may be very different.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Conflict

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Cooperation

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Critics and Criticism

To stop sinning suddenly.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Death and Dying

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Decisions

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Dignity

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Education

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Executives

Every life is its own excuse for being.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Existence

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Expectation

One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Experts

Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Explanations

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Failure

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Failure

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Failure

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Faith

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Freedom

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Friends and Friendship

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Friends and Friendship

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Gambling

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Genius

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Giving

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who lives well.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Glutton

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Gossip

Grammar is the grave of letters.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Grammar

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Habit

Habit is a form of exercise
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Habit

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Happiness

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Humankind

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Ideas

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Influence

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Intelligence and Intellectuals

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Joy

The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Juries

Laughter is higher than all pain.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Laughter

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Life and Living

The cheerful loser is the winner.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Losers and Losing

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Love

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Love

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Love

Luck is tenacity of purpose.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Luck

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Marriage

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Memory

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Methods

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Mind

An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Miracles

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Mistakes

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Money

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Money

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Music

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Neighbors

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Parents and Parenting

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?
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Perseverance

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Pessimism

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Planning

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Plays

Play needs direction as well as work.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Plays

A person born with an instinct for poverty.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Poetry and Poets

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Preparation

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Pride

The man who has no more problems to solve, is out of the game.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Problems

The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Progress

If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Quality

Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Religion

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Rivalry

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Secrets

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Service

The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Silence

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Sin

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Spirit and Spirituality

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Stupidity

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Success

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Success

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Suffering

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Teachers and Teaching

Live truth instead of professing it.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Truth

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Understanding

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Vacation

Victory; a matter of staying power.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Victory

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Work

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Work

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Work

We work to become, not to acquire.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Work

Blessed is that man who has found his work.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Work

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Zest