Tao Te Ching

Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
- Tao Te Ching

John Ruskin

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.
- John Ruskin

Samuel Goldwyn

The harder I work the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn

Denis Diderot

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
- Denis Diderot

C. S. Lewis

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
- C. S. Lewis

Owen Meredith

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
- Owen Meredith

Anonymous

If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse.
- Anonymous

Yogi Berra

I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that question.
- Yogi Berra

Conrad Hilton

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
- Conrad Hilton

Arthur Miller

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
- Arthur Miller

Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.
- Emily Dickinson

William James

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
- William James

Lilian Eichler Watson

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.
- Lilian Eichler Watson

Dean Martin

"If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt."
- Dean Martin

Samuel Johnson

“So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.”
- Samuel Johnson

Nicholas Chamfort

"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are."
- Nicholas Chamfort

James Cash Penney

"Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures."
- James Cash Penney

Bernie S. Siegel

In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.
- Bernie S. Siegel

John Gay

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.
- John Gay

Steven Wright

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
- Steven Wright

Douglas Adams

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

Robert J. Mckain

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.
- Robert J. Mckain

Jeremy Bentham

According to act-utilitarianism, it is the value of the consequences of the particular act that counts when determining whether the act is right.
- Jeremy Bentham

William S. Burroughs

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
- William S. Burroughs

Sir Kenelm Digby

"One can have no happiness in this world or the next but by extreme and vehement love."
- Sir Kenelm Digby

Robert Frost

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
- Robert Frost (1847 - 1963)

Cyril Connolly

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
- Cyril Connolly

Alfred Adler

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
- Alfred Adler

Robert Louis Stevenson

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Oscar Wilde

Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are.
- Oscar Wilde

Mark Twain

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
- Mark Twain