“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” ~ Oliver Napoleon Hill October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970 “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” ~ Oliver Napoleon Hill October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970 “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the […]
“Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.” ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900 “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the […]
“The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969 “I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I […]
“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.” ~ Henry J. Heinz October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919 “Heart power is stronger than horsepower.” ~ Henry J. Heinz October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919 “Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out.” ~ […]
“By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.” ~ Christopher Columbus Born between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506 “After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had […]
“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” ~ Ray Kroc October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984 “It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re […]
“The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.” ~ Loretta Lynn April 14, 1932 – October 4, 2022 “You can’t be halfway in this business. If you don’t meet the fans, you lose all you’ve got.” ~ Loretta Lynn April 14, 1932 – October […]
“Nearly all buyers say ‘No!’ at first. Real salesmen stick until the buyer has used up his last ‘No!’.” ~ William Wrigley Jr. September 30, 1861 – January 26, 1932 “Many a man became my good friend and a customer simply because I would not take offense.” ~ William Wrigley Jr. September 30, 1861 – […]
“Do not worry at being worried; but accept worry peacefully. Difficult but not impossible.” ~ (Johnny Appleseed) Chapman September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 “Pray as you can, not as you can’t.” ~ (Johnny Appleseed) Chapman September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 “The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, […]
“While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.” ~ H. G. Wells 21 September 1866 – 13 August […]
“They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.” ~ Red Auerbach September 20, 1917 – October 28, 2006 “You don’t win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not […]
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956 “For every […]
“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.” ~ Leo Tolstoy 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910 “I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure […]
“I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice. But I can do something else. I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.” “I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it […]
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” ~ Anna Mary Robertson Moses or Grandma Moses September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961 “A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our […]
“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.” ~ Joan of Arc Sept 6 1412 – 30 May 1431 “Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that […]
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” “The only place success comes before work is […]
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” “Let us ask ourselves, ‘What kind of people do we think we are?’ And let us answer, ‘Free people, worthy […]
“I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.” ~ Rocco Francis Marchegiano (Rocky Marciano) September 1, 1923 […]
“A man has to have goals – for a day, for a lifetime – and that was mine, to have people say, ‘There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.’” ~ Theodore Samuel Williams, August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002 “Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed […]
“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.” ~ John Locke 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 “The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in […]
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” ~ Mother Teresa 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997 “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~ Mother Teresa 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997 “The biggest […]
“Never a lip is curved with pain that can’t be kissed into smiles again.” ~ Bret Harte August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902 “A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.” ~ Bret Harte August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902 “Man has the possibility of existence […]
“Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your […]
“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.” ~ Orville Wright August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948 “Isn’t it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!” ~ Orville […]
“Give the lady what she wants!” ~ Marshall Field August 18, 1834 – January 16, 1906 “Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.” ~ Marshall Field August 18, 1834 – January 16, 1906 “A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, […]
“We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.” ~ David Crockett August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836 “I am at liberty to vote as my […]
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 “Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 “Imagination rules the world.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte 15 August 1769 – 5 […]
“There are some principles that cannot be compromised. Either we shall have a society based upon ordered liberty and the initiative of the individual, or we shall have a planned society that means dictation no matter what you call it or who does it. There is no half-way ground. They cannot be mixed.” ~ Herbert […]
“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892 “‘Tis better to […]
