Accountm Quotes

I’m not a fan of the ordinary.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

Willing is not enough; we must do

I’m a very stable genius.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour.

Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose.

It cannot have both.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

It was wonderful to find America,

but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Successful people do

What unsuccessful people

Are not willing to do.

Don't wish it were easier;

Wish you were better.

Whoever is careless with

the truth in small matters

cannot be trusted with

important matters.

We must get rid of fossil fuels

by developing injection systems for automobiles,

which can run on bio fuel.

That all men are equal is a proposition which,

at ordinary times,

no sane individual has ever given his assent.

From a child,

I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music,

painting, flowers, and the sciences,

Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

There are basically two types of people.

People who accomplish things,

and people who claim to have accomplished things.

The first group is less crowded.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,

that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower

where I thought a flower would grow.

So it goes.

If we could first know where we are,

and whither we are tending,

we could then better judge what to do,

and how to do it.

When you come to a fork in the road,

take it.

Jesus did not come to make us safe.

He came to make us brave.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on

our own ‘to do’ list.