Satchel Paige
“Don’t look back; they may be gaining on you.” Satchel Paige quotes
Month: August 2009
Dickinson, Emily
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. Dickinson, Emily quotes
Bumper Sticker
There’s nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won’t aggravate. Bumper Sticker quotes
Johnson, Samuel
I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was …
Bristol, Claude M.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. Bristol, Claude M. …
Coriolanus III
What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city. Coriolanus III quotes
King Jr. Martin Luther
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is …
Cassady, Neal
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. Cassady, Neal quotes
Chrysler, Walter
I feel sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never …
Miyamoto Musashi
“Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced …
Confucius on History
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius Quotes, Famous Quotes, Confucius, History
Jim Bouton on Sports
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around …
Appreciation
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement — and we …
Ecology
The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planet’s way of avoiding a larger death. – Bergman, Morris
Jealousy
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. – Bowen, Elizabeth
Favors
To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty. – Laber
Existence
Every life is its own excuse for being. – Hubbard, Elbert
Travel and Tourism
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a …
Luck
You don’t just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships …
Hatred
Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated. – Shaw, George Bernard
Erma Bombeck on Success
Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. – Erma Bombeck Quotes, Famous Quotes, Erma Bombeck, Success
Robert Green Ingersoll on Equality
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, …
Robert Bresson
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.” Robert Bresson quotes
Bernard Meltzer
“We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.” Bernard Meltzer quotes
Al Capp
“Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.” Al Capp quotes
Aristotle Onassis
“If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” Aristotle Onassis quotes
Movie, A League of Their Own
If winning (success) was easy, then everybody would be doing it. It’s the hard that makes it great! Movie, A League of Their Own quotes
Eliot, George
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. Eliot, George quotes
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett quotes
Jackson, Andrew
One man with courage makes a majority. Jackson, Andrew quotes
Santayana, George
Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. Santayana, George quotes
Peters, Thomas J.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. Peters, Thomas J. quotes
Webster, Daniel
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. Webster, Daniel quotes
Gutzkow
People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe. Gutzkow quotes
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von quotes
Gustave Flaubert on Jobs & Working
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. – Gustave Flaubert Quotes, Famous Quotes, Gustave …
Erma Bombeck on Humor
When humor goes, there goes civilization. – Erma Bombeck Quotes, Famous Quotes, Erma Bombeck, Humor
Faith
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. – Goethals, George W.
Maurice Chevalier on Age
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us …
Henry A. Kissinger on History
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. – Henry A. Kissinger Quotes, Famous …