Chartacter Quotes

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.

Management is doing things right;

leadership is doing the right things.

The things that will destroy America are

prosperity at any price, peace at any price,

safety first instead of duty first,

the love of soft living, and the get rich quick theory of life.

No bird soars too high

if he soars with his own wings

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle;

you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Technological progress is like an axe

in the hands of a pathological criminal.

I can’t help but laugh at how perfect I am.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone,

somewhere, may be happy.

A doctor can bury his mistakes,

but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

If you're going through hell,

keep going

Every day is a chance to rewrite your story.

Life is a difficult game.

You can win it only

by retaining your birthright

to be a person.

Sometimes

The most positive thing

You can be in a Boring society

Is absolutely negative

Strength does not come from winning.

Your struggles develop your strengths.

The only man who never makes a mistake

is the man who never does anything.

The rule is perfect:

in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Intellectual growth should commence

at birth and cease only at death.

That all men are equal is a proposition which,

at ordinary times,

no sane individual has ever given his assent.