Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
They are able because they think they are able.
Vergil
The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford
One learns to itch where one can scratch.
Ernest Bramah
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Mahatma Gandhi
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Horace Greeley
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.
John Petit-Senn
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill
Business is like riding a bicycle-either you keep moving or you fall down.
Anonymous
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Charles M. Schwab
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.
Winston Churchill
Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which anyone can get into.
J. Ogden Armour
It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoi
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert F. Kennedy
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance-the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!
Philander Johnson
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
Charles Dickens
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.
F. L. Lucas
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Josh Billings
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
Will Rogers
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Francis Keppel
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
Lord Chesterfield
The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.
Confucius
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
Christopher Quill
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
Lord Essex
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Seneca
Gratitude is the heart's memory.
French Proverb
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Cicero
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Ancient Proverb
Sow an act and you reap a habit.
Sow a habit and you reap a character.
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Charles Reade
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin
Make haste slowly.
Latin Proverb
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
Without humility there can be no humanity.
John Buchan
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Oscar Wilde
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.
Anonymous
When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.
Russian Proverb
Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
François de La Rochefoucauld
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we have done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
Herbert Hoover
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Confucius
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield
He who adds not to his learning diminishes it.
The Talmud
I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
John Locke
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
Lord Dunsany
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain. The superior man stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
Daniel Webster
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
Albert Schweitzer
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Benjamin Franklin
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb Colton
Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no knowledge that is not power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Will Rogers
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson
There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.
E. J. Klemme
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Petronius Arbiter
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Edward Gibbon
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him-therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Samuel Butler
The best is the cheapest.
Benjamin Franklin
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.
John Ruskin
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
W. Alton Jones
A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.
Anonymous
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
Anonymous
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Oliver Goldsmith
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
Andrew Carnegie
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it.
George Bernard Shaw
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles De Gaulle
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
John Cotton Dana
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
Josh Billings
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles F. Kettering
I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you.
Anonymous
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments.
Psalms 133:1-2
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Rudyard Kipling
We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Where there is no vision a people perish.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
Woodrow Wilson
The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
John Stuart Mill
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
Joseph Conrad
Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant