Persion Quotes

When you have got an elephant by

the hind legs and he is trying to run away,

it's best to let him run.

J Alphabet and Letter in Red

I’m not a businessman.

I’m a business,

man.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself

a refuge from almost all miseries of life.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

There is nothing in the world

so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Flowers... are a proud assertion

that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Cautious,

careful people always casting about to preserve their reputations…

can never effect a reform.

I never coach for the tie.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it

and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief

that it is in course of ultimate extinction,

or its advocates will push it forward,

till it shall become alike lawful in all the States old as well as new

North as well as South.

Put the work in,

and the rest will follow.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Economic depression cannot be cured by

legislative action or executive pronouncement.

Liberty cannot be established without morality,

nor morality without faith.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more

if only they knew they were slaves.

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance

to the proper execution of all physical action.

The only thing I learned in school

that I use today is how to write a check.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

The future is not a gift,

it is an achievement.

Ultimately,

Education in its real sense

is the pursuit of truth.

It is an endless journey

through knowledge

and enlightenment.