"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."

Robbins, Anthony on Failure
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"You always pass failure on the way to success."

Rooney, Mickey on Failure
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Fate
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

Jefferson, Thomas on Bankers and Banking
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 5 fans >>

This quote can be viewed in the context of a book

"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes."

Erasmus, Desiderius on Doctors
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth."

Ennius, Quintus on Action
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life."

Boetcker, William on Service
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 4 fans >>

"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."

Lessing, Doris on Colleges and Universities
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."

Auerbach, Red on Action
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 10 fans >>

"Be Prepared."

Powell, Lord Baden on Preparation
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so."

Plato on Virtue
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on The future
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 8 fans >>

"When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away."

Proverb, English on Rebellion
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 6 fans >>

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

Lincoln, Abraham on Dogs
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 14 fans >>

"Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on Meaning of Life
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"There is no success without hardship."

Sophocles on Success
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 4 fans >>

"If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it."

Murphy's Law, (Edward A. Murphy, Jr.) on Wrong
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 9 fans >>

"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions."

Will, George F. on Politicians and Politics
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished."

Gray, John on Men and Women
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 10 fans >>

"This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put. "

Churchill, Winston on Uncategorised
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 3 fans >>

"Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less."

Lee, Robert E. on Duty
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office."

West, Mae on Virtue
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use."

Irving, Washington on Communication
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 3 fans >>

"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

Allen, James on Courage
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 4 fans >>

"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve."

Allen, James on Desire
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 12 fans >>

This quote can be viewed in the context of a book

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

Mother Teresa on Action
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 7 fans >>

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax."

Lincoln, Abraham on Work
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 3 fans >>

"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell."

Borman, Frank on Capitalism
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 3 fans >>

"Weak people cannot be sincere."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Sincerity
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 3 fans >>

"Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on Leaders and Leadership
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 4 fans >>

"Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Home
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"The aims of life are the best defense against death."

Levi, Primo on Purpose
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

Sandburg, Carl on Action
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 7 fans >>

"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."

Augustine, St. on Charity
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted."

Carnegie, Andrew on Honor
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 4 fans >>

"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation."

Macarthur, Douglas on Freedom
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 3 fans >>

"In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on."

Pythagoras on Leisure
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 3 fans >>

"All change is not growth; all movement is not forward."

Glasgow, Ellen on Change
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 7 fans >>

"My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there."

Shaw, Henry Wheeler on Patience
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>