Quotations about Being Fit for Life
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FinanceThere is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. [Louis D. Brandeis]A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination. [Arthur Wing Pinero] High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. [Finley Peter Dunne] HateA man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man. [Archibald MacLeish]National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. [Buddha] JealousyJealousy is the injured lover's hell. [John Milton]What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes. [John Gay] O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; / It is the green-eyed monster. [William Shakespeare] LawIf you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made. [Otto von Bismarck]If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. [Charles Dickens] How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread! - Anatole France] A jury [in America very often] consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. [Robert Frost] It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. [Earl Warren] LeadershipLeadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. [Dwight D. Eisenhower]To lead the people, walk behind them. [Lao-Tzu] The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home. [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)]
MiseryThere are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples. [Oliver Wendell Holmes]NeglectHe that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. [Samuel Johnson]PerfectionThis is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. [Saint Augustine]One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. [Epictetus] PerseveranceMany make way for the man who boldly pushes past us to his grief, maybe loss. [Cf. Christian Nestell Bovee]By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. [Edmund Burke] PunctualityPunctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. [Don Marquis]PurposeThe secret of success is constancy to purpose. [Benjamin Disraeli]Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. [Washington Irving] QuotationNow we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. [Orson Welles]Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] RightsAlways do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. [Mark Twain]I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. [Robert Green Ingersoll] The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously. [Hubert H. Humphrey] RiskDon't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. [William Lloyd George]Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. [Metastasio] ScientificMediocrities . . . cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. - Albert EinsteinOur perceiving self is nowhere to be found within the world-picture, because it is itself the world-picture. - Erwin Schrödinger Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind. - Erwin Schrödinger UnionThe labor movement's basic purpose is to achieve a better life for its members. A union that fails in this purpose has failed utterly. [New York Times]WageLow wages are not cheap wages. [Louis D. Brandeis]Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. [Edwin H. Stuart] WasteWillful waste brings woeful want. [Thomas Fuller]The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. [Orison S. Marden] WealthHe does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him. [Benjamin Franklin]Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. [Andrew Carnegie] This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. [John Fitzgerald Kennedy] If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. [Socrates] Those who condemn wealth are those who have none and see no chance of getting it. [William Penn Patrick] The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them. [La Rochefoucauld] WorkWork is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. [Bertie Charles Forbes]I like work; It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. [Jerome K. Jerome] |
 
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