Quotation Collection

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell

• friends

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius. Elbert Hubbard

• effort
• genius
• mistakes

Write your goals in concrete and your plans in sand. Anonymous

• goals
• plans
• flexibility

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. Bruce Lee

• limitations
• self improvement

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen. Hugh Prather

• patience
• initiative

'Done' is better than 'perfect'. Anonymous

• perfection

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live. Alfred Adler

• mistakes

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress. Frederick Douglass

• tyranny
• government
• power

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. Adrian Rogers

• socialism
• welfare
• government

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. Adrian Rogers

• socialism
• welfare

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble as well as we can. Sydney Smith

• initiative

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. Anonymous

• initiative

Today I will do what others won't so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't. Jerry Rice

• sacrifice
• discipline

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. Buckminster Fuller

• genius
• children

If broke people are making fun of your financial plan, you’re on track. Dave Ramsey

• money

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. H. L. Mencken

• government

For the average American family, filling out a tax form has become like attacking a puzzle to which, often enough, there is no right answer. But we're all supposed to swear, on penalty of perjury, that we've done our best to find it. Paul Greenberg

• taxes

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. Will Rogers

• death
• funny
• taxes

Fear is an emotion manufactured in the imagination. The best proof of this is found by observing the differences in what people are afraid of. If fear was instinctive, genetic, or the product of rational thought, shouldn’t we all fear pretty much the same things? Clancy Cross

• fear

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. Dorothy Bernard

• courage
• prayer

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions. Ian Percy

• judgment

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life...If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing. Saint Teresa

• legacy
• priorities
• values

There is no greater sin than desire, no greater curse than discontent, no greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. Lao Tzu

• desire