A Famous Quotes Collection

WORK

2008-11-09T05:27:00.000-08:00

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.— Kin HubbardAll business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.— Thorstein VeblenIt’s not the bulls or the bears you need to avoid — it’s the bum steers.— Chuck HillisBuy low, sell high, collect early, and pay late.— Dick LevinHe who

Victory

2008-08-07T03:57:00.000-07:00

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. — Winston Churchill To the victor belong the toils. — Adlai E. Stevenson The only victory over love is flight. — Napoleon Bonaparte There is no substitute for victory. — General Douglas MacArthur Who overcomes by force, hath overcome

Time & Timing

2008-08-06T03:55:00.000-07:00

I am always quarreling with time! It is so short to do something and so long to do nothing. — Queen Charlotte The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. — Leontyne Price We must use time creatively...and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. — Martin Luther King, Jr. When a man sits with a pretty girl

Talent

2008-08-05T03:54:00.000-07:00

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while. — Pearl Bailey Talent wins out. — Althea Gibson Darben Keep your talent in the dark and you’ll never be insulted. — Elsa Maxwell A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. — Isaac Stern

Success

2008-08-03T03:51:00.000-07:00

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions os people who formerly snubbed you. — Mary Wilson Little . . . the man who succeeds is never conceded the right to fail. — William Pickens If every successful man needs a woman behind him, every successful woman needs at least three men. — Margot Naylor Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. — Rosalind

Status

2008-08-01T03:49:00.000-07:00

The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them. — Robert Frost All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it. — Lord Mancroft Soldiers win battles and generals get the credit. — Napoleon Bonaparte Many of the quests for status symbols—the hot automobile, the best table in a restaurant or a private chat with

Self-Esteem

2008-07-30T03:34:00.000-07:00

We shall have our manhood. — Eldridge Cleaver The greatest possession is self-possession. — Ethel Watts Mumford He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. — Susan Sontag Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, “It’s no use—I can’t do

Responsibility

2008-06-23T07:32:00.000-07:00

It is our responsibility, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. — Peter Ustinov Responsibility, the high price of self-ownership. — Eli Schleifer It is easier to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. — Josiah Stamp Character is made by what you stand for; reputation, by what you fall for. — Robert Quillen It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzcshe If you don’t do it excellently, don’t do it at all. Because if it’s not excellent, it won’t be profitable or fun, and if you’re not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there? — Robert Townsend What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order. — Antoine-Auguste Préault Well done is better than well said. — Benjamin Franklin I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House — with the

Optimism

2008-06-23T07:05:00.000-07:00

Gray skies are just clouds passing over. — Duke Ellington Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure. — Elbert Hubbard Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that will never happen. — James Russell Lowell A problem is a chance for you to do your best. — Duke Ellington ...there is only one genuine misfortune: not to be born. — Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Problems

Leadership

2008-06-12T06:19:00.000-07:00

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you have always played it. — Richard M. Nixon When you soar like an eagle, you attract the hunters. — Milton S. Gould To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult. —

Initiative and Incentive

2008-06-12T06:17:00.001-07:00

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition. — Dwight Morrow No man knows what he can do till he tries. — Publilius Syrus When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically

Honesty

2008-06-12T06:14:00.000-07:00

Honesty is the best policy, but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. — Richard Whateley Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man. — Napoleon Bonaparte All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. — Tennessee Williams A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. — Thomas Carlyle A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness. — Harvey Cushing Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. — Dag Hammarskjold Hitch your wagon to a star. — Ralph Waldo

Fortune and Fate

2008-06-12T05:59:00.000-07:00

Famous Quotes Collection Bad times have a scientific value . . . . We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. — Ralph Waldo Emerson There is only one genuine misfortune: not to be born. — Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis The man with the real

Fame

2008-06-07T05:05:00.000-07:00

The Famous Quotes of The MonthYou can get awful famous in this country in seven days. — Gary Hart To see one’s name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason. — Gustave Flaubert Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. — George

Example

2008-06-07T05:01:00.000-07:00

The Famous Quotes of The Month Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James Baldwin He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example. — Walt Whitman Few things are harder to put up with

Discipline and Self-Disciplin

2008-06-07T04:55:00.000-07:00

The Famous Quotes of The Month A genius? Perhaps, but before I was a genius, I was a drudge. — Ignace Jan Paderewski There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by orders, method, and discipline. — Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the

Determination

2008-06-07T04:46:00.000-07:00

The Famous Quotes of The Month The best way is always through. — Robert Frost Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. — Confucius An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence. — Honoré de Balzac