It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.
—Pauline Phillips (Abigail van Buren) (American Columnist)
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know… One who doesn’t try cannot fail and become wise.
—William Saroyan (American Novelist)
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)
A leader is a dealer in hope.
—Napoleon I (French Monarch)
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you’re slamming the door in the face of God.
—Charles L. Allen (American Methodist Minister)
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
—Jimi Hendrix (American Musician)
When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago- since which time he has been working, toiling and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
—James Whitcomb Riley (American Children’s Books Writer)
Glory is fleeting,
but obscurity is forever.
—Napoleon I (French Monarch)
Reason and justice tell me there’s more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
—Anton Chekhov (Russian Short Story Writer)