Archived Quotes

Be a yardstick of quality.

Some people aren't used to an environment

where excellence is expected.

Over grown military establishments are

under any form of government inauspicious to liberty,

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

We love life,

but life does not love us.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

If people are good only because they fear punishment,

and hope for reward,

then we are a sorry lot indeed.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world

is its comprehensibility.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Plans are nothing;

planning is everything.

The journey is the reward.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine

and shadows will fall behind you.

If it’s flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s,

be the best hamburger flipper in the world.

The successful warrior is the average man,

with laser like focus.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Work expands to fill the time available.

Fear defeats more people than

any other one thing in the world.

All I have seen teaches me to trust

the creator for all I have not seen.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

The world owes you nothing.

It was here first.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find,

but symmetrical men never.

Satire is meant to hurt those who deserve it,

and amuse those who don’t.