Quotes

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all

– Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president

No amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character

– Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A Inc. founder

My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline

– John Irving, writer

If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things

– Edmund Hillary, explorer

God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius

– Anna Pavlova, ballerina

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit

– George Allen, U.S. senator

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary

– Sarah Ban Breathnach, writer

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, education and patience

– Dwight Eisenhower, 34th US president

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant

– Robert Louis Stephenson, writer

He who hesitates is poor

– Mel Brooks, writer, director, comedian

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it

– Ayn Rand, writer

I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity, an obligation,
every possession, a duty

– John D. Rockefeller, industrialist

I do the best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end

– Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president

The way employees treat customers reflects the manner in which they're treated by management

– James Perkins, president, Cornell University

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant

– Robert Louis Stephenson, writer

One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered

– Roy Herbert Thomson, entrepreneur

Managing intellectual assets has become the single most important task of business

– Thomas Stewart, author

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man
Mark Twain

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel

– Mary Kay Ash, May Kay Cosmetics founder

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount

– Claire Boothe Luce, diplomat, writer

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm

– Winston Churchill, British prime minister

Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet

You don't have to see the top of the staircase to take the first step

– Martin Luther King, civil rights leader

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence

– Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self

– Aldous Huxley, writer

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Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm

– Winston Churchill, British prime minister

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none

– Benjamin Franklin, statesman

Life is not a 'brief candle.' It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations

Bernard Shaw, journalist

Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must

– Charles Kettering, inventor

Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible

– Norman Cousins, editor, writer

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Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick

– John Wayne, actor

Men forget everything; women remember everything

JOHN WAYNE; Actor

Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door

JOHN WAYNE; Actor

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't

– Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius

– An Wang, industrialist

The secret of getting things done is to act
Dante Alighieri, poet

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost
John Quincy Adams, 6th US president

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do
Benjamin Spock, doctor

In the long run men hit only what they aim at
Henry David Thoreau, philosopher

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new
Albert Einstein, physicist

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout
Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, architect, engineer

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudices
Clint Eastwood, actor, director

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way
Babe Ruth, basketball player