Pary Quotes

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

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.

You win some,

you lose some,

but you always learn.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man

for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of,

and scoffer at, religion.

There comes a time

when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge

but can never prove how it got there.

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny,

because shiny doesn’t last.

Words are also actions,

and actions are a kind of words.

To refuse awards is another way of

accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Clothes make the man.

Naked people have little or no influence on society.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower.

There is always safety in valor.

Only I can Change my life No one can Do it for me.

If there should prove to be one real,

living Free State Democrat in Kansas,

I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff

and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of

that soon to be extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

We hold these truths to be self

evident,

that all men are created equal...

— The Declaration of Independence (1776)

Skills can be taught.

Character you either have or you don’t have.

The mind,

once stretched by a new idea,

never returns to its original dimensions.

Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm,

even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is

the influence of good women.

Do the right thing.

It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.