Timeless Thoughtsa collection of quotes

compiled by

~ Arnold Van Den Berg ~

 www.centman.com

“I will prepare myself and the opportunity will come.”

The impact this quote had upon me was incredible!

I immediately changed my business strategy and directed all my energies towards acquiring the knowledge needed to become a successful investment counselor. I cut the quote out of the magazine and placed it in my rolodex where I could look at it every day. Each time I read it, it seemed to reinforce the same message. It gave me faith and strength to continue on. I have been collecting quotes ever since, and they have been a great source of inspiration for me for over forty years.

There are no words that could possibly express what these great thoughts have done for my life. As Socrates once said, “Employ your time in reading other men’s works so you can learn easily what it took them all their lives to learn.”

Reading and repeating words of inspiration and encouragement will help heal your pain, provide guidance, and develop the faith that you can achieve your dreams and goals.

I hope these thoughts will mean as much to you as they have to me.

I t was early 1975. I had just returned to my office after another disappointing day. Nothing seemed to be going right in my business. I sat down at my desk to think about what I could possibly do to improve my situation.

After a few moments, my secretary walked in with her arms full of mail. As she handed the mail to me, a magazine fell onto my desk with its back cover facing up. In big, bold letters, there was a quote by Abraham Lincoln:

With best wishes for a successful future, Arnold Van Den Berg

 “No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.”

  Charles Adams

 

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

 

William Arthur Ward

 “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”

William James

“Man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”

 

James Allen

“The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.”

 

Aesop

 

 

“Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.”

 

Bertolt Brecht

 

 

 

“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

 

Alfred Adler

  

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

 

Napoleon Bonaparte

 

 

“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God- made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.”

Marc Chagall

 

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

 

Confucius

 

 

 “You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.”

Clarence Darrow

 

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”

 

Walt Disney

 

 

“A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.”

 

H.W. Dodds

 

“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to hide them.”

 

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

 

 

“Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”

 

Albert Einstein

 

 

“We have to do the best we can. That is our sacred human responsibility.”

 

Albert Einstein

 

  

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

 

Albert Einstein

“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, a picture which was never seen before and which shall never be seen again.”

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.”

 

Harry Emerson Fosdick

 

 

 

“The forest is magnificent, yet it contains no perfect trees.”

 

Gye Fram

  

“The mob has many heads, but no brains.”

 

Thomas Fuller

 

 

 

 “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”

 

Scott Hamilton

 

 

 “He who is greedy is always in want.”

 

Horace

 

 

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”

 

Isaac D’Israeli

 

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

 

Thomas Jefferson

  

“To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you’re overdoing it.”

J. Jenkins

 

 

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”

 

Kimberly Johnson

 

 

 

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

 

Abraham Lincoln

 “What you focus on in life expands…so think about

what you want.”  Andrew Matthews 

  “You have not converted a man because you have

silenced him.”  John Viscount Morley 

 “Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is

powerful.”  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche  

“The growth of wisdom may be gauged accurately by the decline of ill-temper.”

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche  

 “Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to

reality at all costs.”  M. Scott Peck  

 “The richest soil, if not cultivated, produces the rankest

weeds.”  Plutarch

 “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be

kindled.”  Plutarch 

 “When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.” 

Arthur Ponsonby 

“Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.”

  Michael Pritchard  

“If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.”

  Buddhist Proverb 

 “One may go a long way after one is tired.”  French Proverb  

“Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass.”

Japanese Proverb  

 “Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of

death.” 

Elisabeth Kubler Ross 

 “Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.”

 Hasidic Saying

 

 “An animal knows when you are afraid; a coward

knows when you are not.”  David Seabury 

 “The real measure of a man’s worth is how much he

would be worth if he lost all his money.”  Harold J. Smith 

“Arguing with a fool proves there are two.”  Doris M. Smith   

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.”

  Mark Twain 

“Irony is when you buy a suit with two pairs of pants and then burn a hole in the coat.”

Unknown

“Perspective is everything. To a worm, digging in the ground is much more relaxing than going fishing.”

 Unknown

“Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway.”

Unknown 

 “God is a circle whose center is everywhere and

circumference is nowhere.”  Voltaire

 “You can’t hold a man down without staying down

with him.”  Booker T. Washington  

 “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.”

  Peggy Fleming

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

  Kahlil Gibran 

 “The language of truth is unadorned and always

simple.”  Marcellinus Ammianus   

“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

 Jesus Christ (John 8:32)

 

 “There is no greatness where there is no simplicity,

goodness, and truth.”  Count Leo Tolstoy 

 “Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.”  Abraham Lincoln  

 “The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth.”

  Albert Einstein

 “Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be

outraged by silence.”  Henri Frederic Amiel

“Where there is no vision, people perish.” 

Ralph Waldo Emerson  

“The inevitable never happens. It is the unexpected, always.”

  John Maynard Keynes 

“Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.”

 Voltaire

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

  Henry Ford  

“Foolproof systems don’t take into account the ingenuity of fools.”

  Gene Brown

“I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.”

  Sir Nathan Rothschild

 “The person who knows ‘how’ will always have a job.

The person who knows ‘why’ will always be his boss.”

  Diane Ravitch 

“A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.”

  Ludwig Erhard

“The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.”

  Kin Hubbard 

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”  Mohandas Gandhi 

 “Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take

as a gift whatever the day brings.”  Horace

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.”

  Henry Ford

“Money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.”

  George Soros 

“The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.”

  George Soros

“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.”

  Warren Buffett 

“The fire at the manufacturing plant was due to friction caused by a large inventory rubbing up against an insurance policy.”

  Old Southern Saying

“I buy when other people are selling.” 

J. Paul Getty

 “Good will is the one and only asset that competition

cannot undersell or destroy.”  Marshall Field 

“Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.”

  David Ricardo  

“Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power in thine hand to do it.”

  Proverbs 15:1

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”  Aristotle 

“If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.” 

James Goldsmith 

“The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.”

  Buddha

“A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.”

  Chinese Proverb 

 “When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that

his first name was Always.”

Rita Rudner

“Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”

  Dr. Karl Menninger

 “I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.” 

Albert Einstein 

 “Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“The most important lesson you can learn from winning is that you can.”

  Dave Weinbaum 

 “You will never find time for anything. If you want

time, you must make it.”  Charles Buxton  

“I don’t know what the seven wonders of the world are, but I do know the eighth; compound interest.”

  Baron Rothschild 

 “The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable

will power to keep from following the crowd.”  Benjamin Graham 

“To no force in the universe belongs such power as that of minds united in one purpose.”

  Prentice Mulford 

“There are no hard times for good ideas.” 

H. Selfridge 

 “The boundary lines of a man’s mortality mark the

limits of his success.” 

James Allen

“The natural world is the mental world made visible.” 

James Allen

 “The secret of strength lies in the quiet mind.”  White Eagle

 “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest

source of learning.”  Bill Gates

 “Choose a job you love and you will never have to

work a day in your life.”  Confucius

 “Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the

whole world will be clean.”  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

“The arrow tipped with ill-nature and sarcasm is deadliest to him who sends it.”

  Prentice Mulford 

“Say little; love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good.”

  White Eagle 

 “To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to

educate a menace to society.”  Theodore Roosevelt

 “The winds and waves are always on the side of the

ablest navigators.”  Edward Gibbon 

 “Anything will give up its secrets if you love it

enough.”  George Washington Carver

“The road to a friend’s house is never long.”  Danish Proverb 

 “It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to

explain why you did it wrong.”  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

 “Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.”  Aesop

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way and not starting.”

Buddha

“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”

Miguel De Cervantes

 “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his

influence stops.” 

Henry B. Adams

“No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.”

 Voltaire

 

 “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the

moon, and the truth.” 

Buddha

“What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.”

Henry Miller

“To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.”

Olin Miller

“He who understands interest earns it. He who doesn’t understand it pays it.”

Richard Russell

“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be.”

Adlai Stevenson

“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”

William Arthur Ward

“To be a champ you will have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.”

Sugar Ray Robinson

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”

Mae West

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

Buddha

“You are today where your thoughts have taken you. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”

James Allen

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

Mother Teresa

“We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.”

Unknown

“Money wasted can be restored. Health wasted can be restored. But time wasted can never be restored.”

James Allen

“Never be satisfied with what you are…Only with what you can be.”

Unknown

“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”

Kahlil Gibran

“It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.”

Eric Hoffer

“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.”

Janis Joplin

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – ‘excellence.’ To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

Pearl Buck

“Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.”

Lao Tzu

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

Ella Fitzgerald

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

Mohandas Gandhi

“Even if you are in a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“Do not allow anyone to tell you for what purpose you live. To be happy and fulfilled, you do need a purpose, but let it rise out of who you are.”

Nathaniel Branden

“Never yield to a neurosis in anyone. Dare to oppose and ignore it.”

David Seabury

“You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.”

Joe Louis

“Sometimes the sub-conscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us toward our destiny.”

Nathaniel Branden

“Don’t sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.”

David Viscott

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”

Buddha

“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“Integrity has no need of rules.”

Albert Camus

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

Oprah Winfrey

“He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.”

Michel de Montaigne

“The purpose of life is to matter – to count, to stand for something, to have it make some difference that we lived at all.”

Leo Rosten

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without it.”

Unknown

“It’s hard to make a comeback when you haven’t been anywhere.”

Unknown

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”

Samuel Johnson

“We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: by doing a deed, by experiencing a value, and by suffering.”

Victor Frankl

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”

Charlotte Bronte

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

Mark Twain

“The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”

Charles Dubois

“He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.”

Confucius

“That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.”

William Boetcker

“A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else.”

Cardinal De Retz

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false and to incur my own abhorrence.”

Frederick Douglass

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

Albert Einstein

“Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”

St. Augustine

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Religion, whatever it is, is a man’s total reaction upon life.”

William James

“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”

Thomas Jefferson

“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”

Mohandas Gandhi

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”

Dalai Lama

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

Henri Bergson

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

Albert Einstein

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”

Buddha

“It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.”

Kin Hubbard

“Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.”

Spinoza

“You can have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

Helen Keller

“And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.”

Marcus Aurelius

“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”

Marie Curie

“We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don’t know.”

W. H. Auden

“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”

Louis Pasteur

“You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.”

John Wooden

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday, but never remembers her age.”

Robert Frost

“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”

Mother Teresa

“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.”

Kahlil Gibran

“You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.”

Eric Hoffer

“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”

Otto von Bismark

“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.”

Demosthenes

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

Seneca

“Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.”

William Penn

“The most mighty hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.”

Ecclesiasticus 38:4

“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”

Samuel Johnson

“Let none falter who thinks he is right.”

Abraham Lincoln

“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

Carlos Casteneda

“Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.”

Charles Simmons

“As Love becomes more and more unconditional, it begins to be experienced as inner Joy…

Joy arises from within each moment of existence.”

David R. Hawkins

“The crowd is most enthusiastic and optimistic when it should be cautious and prudent; and it’s most fearful when it should be bold.”

Humphrey Neill

“Gentlemen, if you want to be a success in business, you must love your product.”

George F. Doriot

When someone asked J. P. Morgan what he thought the market would do next year … he said, “it would fluctuate.”

J. P. Morgan

“No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn’t understand the problem.”

Robert Half

“You drive yourself too hard. You really must learn to take time to stop and smell the profits.”

Unknown

“If you don’t have the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over.”

Jeffrey Mayer

“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first…the cash will come later.”

Harold Green

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.”

William James

“When a man is pushed, tormented, and defeated, he has a chance to learn something.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The voice of intelligence…is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.”

Dr. Karl Menninger

“Let the act of the moment be governed by deep abiding purpose of the heart.”

James Allen

“The truth hurts. Not the searching after, the running from.”

John Eyberg

“In a fleeting moment of self-forgetfulness, the smallest soul becomes great.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In matter the law is mathematical. In the mind it is moral.”

James Allen

“He who is victorious over another may in turn be defeated; but he who overcomes himself will never be subdued.”

James Allen

“It is not always enough that we do our best. Sometimes we have to do what is necessary.”

Winston Churchill

“That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.”

Seneca

“Wind will not move rock, nor praise or blame a wise man.”

Buddha

“Others echo what we whisper to them in silence.”

James Allen

“There exists enough for everybody’s needs … but not enough for everybody’s greed.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Understanding comes only when we, you, and I meet on the same level at the same time. That happens only when there is real affection between people.”

J. Krishnamurti

“What you are speaks so loudly, I can hardly hear what you say.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If one is anxious to reform the world, let him begin by reforming himself.”

James Allen

“When we truly love, we do not judge.”

Edgar Casey

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”

Lao Tzu

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”

Nikow Kazantzakis

“We want to be a nice, honest, wholesome company that makes obscene profits!”

Anonymous

“Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you and before you realize what’s wrong with it.”

Anonymous

“Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.”

Anonymous

“When we see men of contrary nature, we should turn and examine ourselves.”

Confucius

“The universe is transformation. Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

Marcus Aurelius

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

Aristotle

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.”

Russian Proverb

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“There is nothing so disastrous as a rational policy in an irrational world.”

John Maynard Keynes

“There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it.”

Andrew Carnegie

“When your argument has little or no substance, abuse your opponent.”

Cicero

“When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry.”

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment.”

Chodron

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

Carl Jung

“That what you can conceive, plus that which you can believe, is that what you achieve.”

Edgar Cayce

“To be trusted is a greater honor than to be loved.”

James Allen

“The people who hate you never win unless you hate them back.”

Richard Nixon

“When knowledge is separated from virtue, wisdom is lost.”

James Allen

“The spirit of your actions multiply the results.”

Bruce McArthur

“The last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

Victor Frankl

“No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.”

Anonymous

“To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor.”

John Luther Long

“Truth will not make you rich, but it will set you free.”

Will Durant

“Men do not attract that which they want, but that what they are.”

James Allen

“Don’t worry about the job you don’t like. Someone else will soon have it.”

Unknown

“Be strenuous in effort, patient in endurance, and strong in resolution. Hold fast to love and let it shape thy doing.”

James Allen

“Work is love made visible.”

Kahlil Griban

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

Epictetus

“To err is human, to forgive is divine.”

Unknown

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.”

Seneca

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”

Benjamin Franklin

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the cause of it.”

Marcus Aurelius

“One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.”

Irving Wallace

“Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.”

Unknown

“I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.”

Booker T. Washington

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one rascal less in the world.”

Thomas Carlyle

“The true indication of a person’s character is how they treat those who can’t be of any use to them.”

Anonymous

“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.”

Andrew Carnegie

“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”

Frances Bacon

“A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.”

Daniel J. Boorstin

“There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.”

Confucius

“To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine man.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be the best you can be. Nobody can do better than that.”

John Wooden

“Pleasure is and must remain a side effect or a by-product and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.”

Victor Frankl

“There are many times when a man should be contented with what he has, but never with what he is.”

James Allen

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Who supplies another with a constructive thought has enriched him forever.”

Alfred A. Montapert

“The music that can deepest reach, and cure all ill, is cordial speech.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is a socialist idea that making a profit is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.”

Winston Churchill

“It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune and when you have it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.”

Meyer Rothschild

“The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happy is the man who gives and doesn’t remember and takes and never forgets.”

Harold Berlfein

“They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.”

Sir Phillip Sidney

“I will prepare myself and the opportunity will come.”

Abraham Lincoln

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts. It is made up of our thoughts.”

Buddha

“The only people you should get even with are the ones who have been good to you.”

Anonymous

“The first step in helping somebody is believing in them.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He is poor who is dissatisfied with what he has. He is rich who is content with what he has. And he is richer who is generous with what he has.”

James Allen

“The essential difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man controls his thinking and the fool is controlled by it.”

James Allen

“That best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

William Wordsworth

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”

Confucius

“Self-reliance and self-respect are about as valuable commodities as we carry in our pack through life.”

Luther Burbank

“Attitude is more important than intelligence.”

Albert Einstein

“A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is home.”

Anonymous

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

Mark Twain

“It’s not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.”

Bear Bryant

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

Leo Buscaglia

“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.”

Pat Riley

“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.”

Grenville Kleiser

“Any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.”

Booker T. Washington

“There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.”

Clare Boothe

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

Albert Einstein

“Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.”

Henry Ford

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

Michelangelo Buonarroti

“The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”

Napoleon Hill

“Many people die with music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present is a major component of mental wellness.”

Abraham Maslow

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

Thomas Edison

“If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you’re under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back.”

Rubel Shelly

“It is better to fill your heart than your stomach. It’s also healthier.”

Eileen Van Den Berg

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy.I awoke and saw that life was service.I acted, and behold, service was joy.”

Rabindranath Tagore

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

Edith Wharton

“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”

Charles Schwab

“The world can change in an instant. So can the way you choose to see it. Why not choose to see the good in yourself and others.”

Bob Perks

“Don’t be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That’s only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.”

Olga Korbut

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

Will Rogers

“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.”

Rene Descartes

“When you speak of someone or about someone, you should speak as though they were in the room with you. The ears that you speak to today are attached to the mouth that could relay the message tomorrow.”

William ‘Biddy’ Allen

“The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, loving relationship.”

Barbara DeAngelis

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

Albert Einstein

“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”

Edward R. Murrow

“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”

Michael J. Fox

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.”

Napoleon Hill

“I’ve had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you’re carrying a grudge, they’re out dancing.”

Buddy Hackett

“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints it.”

Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”

Anne Frank

“Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.”

Dennis DeYoung

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”

Eric Hoffer

“Treat a man as he appears to be and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

Melody Beattie

“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”

William James

“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.”

James Allen

“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

Carl Jung

“My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.”

Wilma Rudolph

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world…as in being able to remake ourselves.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.”

Carl G. Jung

“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”

Carl Jung

“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 G. Jung

“I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!”

Theodore Roosevelt

“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”

Zig Ziglar

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

Kahlil Gibran

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

Mother Teresa

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”

Yogi Berra

“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be.”

Adlai Stevenson

“Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning.”

Ludwig van Beethoven

“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.”

Carl G. Jung

“Great men are those who see that thought rules the world.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only true gift is a portion of yourself.”

` Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

Helen Keller

“He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”

Kahlil Gibran

“Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.”

Lin Yutang

“If people would move the world, they must first move themselves.”

Plato

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners no matter what fork you use.”

Emily Post

“If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.”

Fred Menger

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”

Frank W. Leahy

“The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.”

Arthur Schnabel

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

Aristotle

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“God comes to the hungry in the form of food.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

Carl Jung

“Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.”

Socrates

“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.”

M. Grundler

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

Charles Darwin

“Without darkness, there are no dreams.”

Karla Kuban

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead

“To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”

John Locke

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of man as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

Helen Keller

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.”

Unknown

“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

Helen Keller

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”

Helen Keller

“The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.”

Helen Keller

“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”

Helen Keller

“We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough.”

Helen Keller

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

Helen Keller

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

Stephen King

“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”

Helen Keller

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”

Lance Armstrong

“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”

Helen Keller

“Every revolution was once a thought in one man’s mind.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”

Helen Keller

“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”

Helen Keller

“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.”

Helen Keller

“I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.”

R. Buckminster Fuller

“Your consciousness influences others around you. It influences material properties. It influences your future. You are co-creating your future.”

William Tiller

“Absolutely. Thought alone can completely change the body.”

Candace Pert

“The human heart does not obey the rules of logic: it is constitutionally contradictory. I can truly say that I have a great grief and that I am a happy man.”

Paul Tournier

“The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

Aristotle

“A true friend is one soul in two bodies.”

Aristotle

“It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.”

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 – that is not easy,”

Aristotle

“In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.”

Aristotle

“A dominant motive even affects what we don't say, or do, quite as much as it shapes our conduct.”

Unknown

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set ofcircumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”

Hugh Downs

“A liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

George Bernard Shaw

“A little integrity is better than any career.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man must know himself if he is to know the truth. Self-knowledge is the handmaiden of self-conquest.”

James Allen

“A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.”

Heraclitus

“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”

Ephesians

“A thought constantly repeated at last becomes a fixed habit.”

James Allen

“Adversity reveals genius; prosperity conceals it.”

Horace

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

Abraham Lincoln

“An old error is always more popular than a new truth.”

German Proverb

“Any man can stand adversity. If you want to test his character, give him power.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Anyone who says business men deal only in facts not fiction has never read old five-year projections.”

Malcolm Forbers

“As scarce as truth is, the supply is always greater than the demand.”

Josh Billings

“Be a light, not a judge.  Be a model, not a critic.”

Unknown

“Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.”

Marilyn vos Savant

“Being ungrateful for what you have never gets any more.”

Lord Chesterfield

“By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.”

Frances Bacon

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

James Baldwin

“Conscience is the root of all courage; if a man would be brave, let him obey his conscience.”

James Freeman Clarke

“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.”

Frank A. Clark

“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.”

Wm. Jennings Bryant

“Do not debate about the truth... live it.”

James Allen

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

New Testament

“Don't wait until the time or the market is just right to start investing -- start now. The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty years ago- the second best time is now.”

James Stowers

“Each moment of the year has its own beauty, a picture, which was never seen before and which shall never be seen again.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Estate Planning: the orderly conversion of your estate to fees and commissions.”

Unknown

“Everyone thinks of changing the world. But no one thinks of changing himself.”

Leo Tolstoy

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others.  It is the only thing.”

Albert Schweitzer

“Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want.”

Unknown

“Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections or trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in corrections themselves.”

Peter Lynch

“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours.”

Swedish Proverb

“Find the good.  It's all around you.  Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.”

Jesse Owens

“Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes, is often perseverance in disguise.”

Henry Willard Austin

“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.”

Aesop

“He who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.”

Unknown

“He who mistrusts most, should be trusted least.”

Theogines

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

Thomas Jefferson

“I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit because they can't give the best service.”

Lee Bristol

“I find more and more that it is well to be on the side of the minority since it is always the more intelligent.”

Goethe

“I have learned to use the word impossible with great caution.”

Wernher Von Braun

“I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content in it.”

St. Paul

“I never give them hell. I give them truth and they think it is hell.”

Harry Truman

“If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know that none of his money is tied up in it.”

Verda Ross

“If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact, not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.”

Shimon Peres

“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.”

Paul Bear Bryant

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it you can become it.”

William Arthur Ward

“If you don't know where you are going it doesn't matter what road you take.”

Unknown

“If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over.”

Jeffrey Mayer

“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse.”

Unknown

“If you want me, you can always find me in the lead tank.”

General George Patton

“If you work for an organization that makes its decisions by committee, make darn sure you're on the committee.”

Unknown

“In any controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.”

Thomas Carlyle

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

Thomas Jefferson

“In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.”

Charles Revlon

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

Albert Einstein

“Instead of deriving pleasure from what he has, the envious person derives pain from what others have.”

Bertrand Russell

“It is belief that increases your chances for success. If you don't believe, you won't try as hard.”

Arnold Van Den Berg

“It is better to displease people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what is wrong.”

William Boetcker

“It is possible to own too much.  A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.”

Lee Segall

“It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.”

Eric Hoffer

“Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.”

Horace

“Long is the night to him who is awake. Long is a mile to him who is tired. Long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.”

Buddha

“Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.”

Moshe Ibn Ezra

“Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.”

Robert Townsend

“Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all alternatives.”

Abba Eban

“Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.”

Winston Churchill

“Mental health is dedication to reality at all costs.”

M. Scott Peck

“Never ask a lawyer or accountant for business advice.  They are trained to find problems, not solutions.”

Unknown

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined.”

Harry Emerson Fosdick

“No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.”

Robes Pierre

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”

Helen Heller

“Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market.  Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested.”

Peter Lynch

“Nothing can prevent you from learning the truth so much as the belief that you already know it.”

Jon K. Hart

“Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.”

Maurice Chevalier

“Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.”

Thomas J. Watson

“One finger can't lift a pebble.”

Hopi Sayings

“One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.”

John Stuart Mills

“Only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”

Albert Einstein

“Our doubts are traitors and cause us to miss the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.”

William Shakespeare

“Our separateness from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness.”

Jampolsky & Cirincione

“Poverty is the mother of crime.”

Unknown

“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”

Frank A. Clark

“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.”

Josh Billings

“Remember that a person who is foolish with money is foolish in other ways too.”

Unknown

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.”

The Dalai Lama

“Reputations are made by searching for things that can't be done and doing them.”

Frank Tyger

“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”

William Shakespeare

“Seek out men and women of the highest character and integrity over and beyond competence or superior ability.  Then trust these people with the full authority and responsibility of the positions they occupy so that they could achieve the pride and self-satisfaction of a job well done.”

William S. Paley

“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aims.”

John D. Rockefeller

“Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.”

Winston Churchill

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all of the lessons of history.”

Aldous Huxley

“The arrow is always tipped with ill nature and sarcasm is the deadliest to him to send it.”

Prentice Mulford

“The chief losses to investor come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.”

Benjamin Graham

“The crowd is most enthusiastic and optimistic when it should be cautious and prudent; and is most fearful when it should be bold.”

Humphrey Neill

“The cynic sees the evil in his own heart and thinks he sees the world.”

James Allen

“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.”

Eric Fromm

“The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”

William James

“The easy way to teach children the value of money is to borrow from them.”

Unknown

“The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.”

Lyndon Johnson

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings may alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”

William James

“The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines not become excited by sizable advances.”

Benjamin Graham

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”

Voltaire

“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The nature of man is always the same; it is their habits that separate them.”

Confucius

“The nice thing about egoist is that they don't talk about other people.”

Lucille S. Harper

“The only fool greater than the one that thinks he knows it all is the one who argues with him.”

Unknown

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within me.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“The road is never long when going to the home of a friend.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.”

Aesop

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”

Unknown

“The strong are those who show compassion for the weak, for they are able to resist the vanity of their strength.”

Unknown

“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”

William Blake

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”

Elbert Hubbard

“There is enough for everybody's needs, but not enough for everybody's greed.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“There is never a wrong time to do the right thing.”

Unknown

“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”

William James

“There is no substitute for accurate knowledge.  Know yourself, know your business, know your men.”

Randall Jacobs

“There is nothing so wasteful as doing with great efficiency that which does not have to be done at all.”

Unknown

“Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth.”

Joseph Joubert

“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”

Unknown

“To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine man.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To the world you may be one person.  To the person you may be the world.”

Unknown

“Treat people as if he were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Unless you can watch your stock holdings decline by 50% without becoming panic-stricken, you should not be in the stock market.”

Warren Buffett

“Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be silent if none of the birds sang, except for the best.”

Henry Van Dyke

“We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.”

Ovid

“We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.”

Thomas Jefferson

“We have to do the best we can.  This is our sacred human responsibility.”

Albert Einstein

“We learn more by welcoming criticism than by remembering judgment.”

J. Jelnek

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

Winston Churchill

“What a man thinks, he does, what he does, he is.”

James Allen

“What we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.”

John Lubbock

“Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it.”

Unknown

“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”

Goethe

“When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When we are living on this much borrowed money, we are also living on borrowed time.”

Paul Volker

“Where profit is, loss is hidden nearby.”

Unknown

“Work banishes three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.”

Voltaire

“You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.”

Riorio

“You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.”

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

“You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.”

Anonymous

“You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense.”

Ken Keyes

“You will be as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.”

James Allen