Favorite Quotes

"Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more." - Harriman

 

"I'm not afraid of anything." - Calment

 

"Compassion is the basis of morality." - Schopenhauer

 

"A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again." - Du Bois

 

"Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way." - Homer

 

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year." - Dulles

 

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told." - Hugo

 

"The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." - Longfellow

 

"The thing I fear most is fear." - Montaigne

 

"Discretion is not the better part of biography." - Strachey

 

"My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right." - Schurz

 

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Bell

 

"Win or lose, do it fairly." - Rockne

 

"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." - Larcom

 

"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted." - Michelangelo

 

"Study first, play afterwards." - Palmer

 

"Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached." - Grahame

 

"Dead men tell no tales." - Long

 

"You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you." - Maltz

 

"Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door." - Tasso