Famous Quotes

 

Famous Quotes

 

Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.
Danish Proverb

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
Sir James Dewar, Scientist

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler

If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
W. Edwards Deming

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best.
W. Edwards Deming

All my life I’ve wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner/Lily Tomlin

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

We think in generalities, but we live in details.
Alfred North Whitehead

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Mark Twain

In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.
Diego Marchi

There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
Christopher Darlington Morley

If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.
Yiddish proverb

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
Daisy Bates

Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
James R. Cook

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer

When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
Walter Lippmann