Rossiter Worthington Raymond

"Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limits of our sight."
- Rossiter Worthington Raymond

Thomas Paine

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.
- Thomas Paine

Napoleon Hill

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill

Shana Alexander

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
- Shana Alexander

Rudyard Kipling

“He travels fastest who travels alone.”
- Rudyard Kipling

Col. Harland Sanders

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
- Col. Harland Sanders

Buddhist Quote

What we think, we become.
- Buddhist Quote

William Shakespeare

He receives comfort like cold porridge.
- William Shakespeare

Niccolo Machiavelli

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Mignon McLaughlin

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Peter F. Drucker

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.
- Peter F. Drucker

St. Ignatius Loyola

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.
- St. Ignatius Loyola

Henry Ford

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford

E E Cummings

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
- E E Cummings

Theodore Roosevelt

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Charles Peters

"Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy."
- Charles Peters

John Calhoun

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
- John Calhoun

Sir Winston Churchill

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Thomas Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

Victor Hugo

"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life."
- Victor Hugo

Paul Theroux

“The grand tour is just the inspired man’s way of heading home.”
- Paul Theroux

Elbert Hubbard

Allow motion to equal emotion.
- Elbert Hubbard

C. V. R. Thompson

"Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light."
- C. V. R. Thompson

Walter Bagehot

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
- Walter Bagehot

Frank A Garbutt

The man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels with fact is a fool.
- Frank A Garbutt

John F. Kennedy

"Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process."
- John F. Kennedy

Martin R. DeHaan

We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.
- Martin R. DeHaan

John Steinbeck

“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked… In other words, I don’t improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.”
- John Steinbeck

Bertrand Russell

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
- Bertrand Russell

Mark Twain

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.
- Mark Twain