Accountm Quotes

Be careless in your dress if you must,

but keep a tidy soul.

I’m not a fan of the easy way out.

I’m not a fan of the status quo.

The task of leadership is

not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn

that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy

, working at ten dollars per month)

have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth,

and aristocratic family distinction.

It’s not whether you get knocked down,

it’s whether you get up.

Where ignorance is our master,

there is no possibility of real peace.

One must judge the past by the present to understand the future.

Man needs his difficulties because

they are necessary to enjoy success.

To live a pure unselfish life,

one must count nothing as one’s own.

I told my wife the truth.

I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist.

Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist,

two plumbers, and a bartender.

What happens to a dream deferred?

If you're not making mistakes,

then you're not doing anything.

I'm positive

that a doer makes mistakes

Don’t ever trade your authenticity for approval.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country

is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things

you buy every day.

A man is a god in ruins.

When men are innocent,

life shall be longer,

and shall pass into the immortal,

as gently as we awake from dreams.

It is not the man who has too little,

but the man who craves more,

that is poor.

I choose to live without

hope to protect myself

from disappointment.

It's very effective!

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.