Doing your best, School effort, Key to failure

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
~ Winston Churchill

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.
~ Karl G. Maeser

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~ Bill Cosby

Choice, Gratitude, Intellect

You have freedom of choice, but not freedom from choice.
~ Wendell Jones

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
~ Aesop

If we find a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patriotism, Consequences, Directing

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings. Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.
~ Bob Dylan

Happiness is not a reward — it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment — it is a result.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
~ George S. Patton

Disagreements, Altitude, Patriotism

We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.
~ Martin R. DeHaan

It's your attitude not your aptitude that creates your altitude.
~ Nithyajeejo

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Lessening, Leadership, Courts

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.
~ Malcolm Forbes

Leadership is action, not position.
~ Donald H. McGannon

A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
~ Henry Waldorf Francis

Leadership, Greed, Still Waters

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey

For greed, all nature is too little.
~ Seneca, Roman statesman and author

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
~ Malayan Proverb

Books, Injustice, Friends

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good
books which are your very own.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
~ H.L. Mencken

If you're looking for friends when you need them…it's too late.
~ Mark Twain

Fun, Leaders, Boredom

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
~ Katharine Graham, American publisher

Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who
do the right thing.
~ Warren Bennis

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
~ George Burns

Thinking, New Leader, Adventure

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.
~ William James

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is
dreamless, soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up
call.
~ Warren Bennis

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An
inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
~ G.K. Chesterton

Leader or Manager, Excuses, Travel, Mothers

Leaders manage change. Managers control process.
~ Unknown

It's better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
~ George Washington

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~ St. Augustine, philosopher and theologian

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere
formality. It doesn't matter if you say yes or no. You're going to
get it anyway.
~ Erma Bombeck, American humorist (1927-1996)

One-Liner, Resentment, Enterprise

I've been in love with the same woman for 41 years. If my wife finds
out, she'll kill me.
~ Henny Youngman (1906-1998)
U.S. (English born) comedian - known as The King of the One-Liner;
stand-up routine included seldom-used violin.

Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.
~ St. Augustine

Every successful enterprise requires three men - a dreamer, a
businessman, and a son of a bitch.
~ Peter McArthur

Clarity, Discipline, Possibilities

Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.
~ Paul Saffo

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
~ P. J. O'Rourke

You can do anything -- but not everything.
~ David Allen, productivity consultant

Honor, Success, Conscience

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the
reward for what he gave.
~ John Calvin Coolidge

My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil.
~ J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) U.S. entrepreneur - oil billionaire and art collector; took over father's oil company in 1930 and became a billionaire by 1968

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
~ "Mahatma" Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Change, no Respect, End of the Rope

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
~ Jane Goodall

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
~ Rodney Dangerfield

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dignity of Life, Determination, Beautiful Solutions

What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.
~ Kofi Annan (1938-) Ghanaian diplomat - seventh secretary-general of
the United Nations (1997-2006); awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 2001

If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse.
~ Anonymous

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Cup Overflowing, Healing, Creativity

It takes a steady hand to carry a full cup.
~ Anonymous

Time heals what reason cannot.
~ Seneca (5 BC-65 AD) (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Younger) Roman philosopher and statesman - a respected teacher who was eventually condemned for his high moral aims.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
~ Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist

Storms, Millionaire, Irreverence

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
~ Stella Terrill Mann

I've never been a millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it.
~ Dorothy Parker

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
~ Mark Twain

Citizen Soldier, Chemicals, Values

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country.
~ George S. Patton Jr.

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and
oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital
ingredient in beer.
~ Dave Barry

On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country.
~ Boy Scouts of America

Good Citizen, Education, Be Somebody

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
~ Aristotle (Etica Nicomaquea-Politica)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~ Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) U.S. journalist - editor and publisher of Forbes magazine; known for extravagant parties and colorful hobbies (hot-air ballooning and Faberge eggs).

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
~ Jane Wagner

Spring, Creativity, Patriotism

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
~ Robin Williams

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
~ Dr. E. Land

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that
it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
~ Hamilton Fish