Chartacter Quotes

To succeed in your mission,

you must have single

minded

devotion to your goal.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

When you sit on a red

hot cinder a second seems like an hour.

That's relativity.

Lord,

make me an instrument of your peace.

The best politics is honesty with humor.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing.

I admire him.

I pity the creature who does not work,

at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Change the way you look at things

and the things you look at change.

I learned a great many years ago

that in a fight between husband and wife,

a third party should never get between

the woman's skillet and the man's ax helve.

We cannot despair of humanity,

since we ourselves are human beings.

Faith and reason are like two wings on

which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.

Principles are fine until you have to act on them.

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.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

I'm always asked 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

If you want to be happy, be.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Against the assault of laughter,

nothing can stand.

The young man knows the rules,

but the old man knows the exceptions.

You do what you can with the limited resources you have.

If you don’t understand the details of your business

you are going to fail.