Motivational Quotes

The way my luck is running,

if I was a politician I would be honest.

Men who do things without being

told draw the most wages.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me.

He said I was being ridiculous

everyone hasn't met me yet.

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow.

he told me to wear a brown tie.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years.

I didn't want to interrupt her.

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy

and I said I want a second opinion.

He said okay, you're ugly too.

I went to a fight the other night,

and a hockey game broke out.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket

book not only suffers by it,

but your preparations are lost

and a season passes away unimproved.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth

and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity

before it is entitled to the appellation.

War

An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy,

to accomplish our will.

I am persuaded,

you will permit me to observe,

that the path of true piety,

is so plain as to require,

but little political direction.

Lenience will operate with greater force,

in some instances than rigor.

It is therefore my first wish to have

all of my conduct distinguished by it.

It may be laid down as a primary position,

and the basis of our system,

that every Citizen who enjoys,

the protection of a Free Government,

owes not only a proportion of his property,

but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

A slender acquaintance with the world

must convince every man that actions, not words,

are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship,

I am disposed to endulge the professors of,

Christianity in the church,

that road to heaven which to them,

shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business

be Short and Comprehensive.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous

than myself to establish effectual barriers

against the horrors of spiritual tyranny,

and every species of religious persecution.

I have no other view than to promote the public good,

and am unambitious of honors not founded,

in the approbation of my Country.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier

to prevent an enemy from posting themselves

than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Over grown military establishments are

under any form of government inauspicious to liberty,

and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.