Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.
—George MacDonald (Scottish Christian Author)
Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
—William Hazlitt (English Essayist)
The world does not have to change … The only thing that has to change is our attitude.
—Gerald Jampolsky
Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
—Confucius (Chinese Philosopher)
Lying, a telling of beautiful untrue things, this is the proper aim of art.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet)
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understanding and our hearts.
—William Hazlitt (English Essayist)
Fear clogs; Faith liberates.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)
Distinction is the consequence, never the object, of a great mind.
—Washington Allston (American Poet)
Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as individuals, utilize our principal by-product? Our principal by-product is, of course, our leisure time. Many years of observation forces the conclusion that a man’s success or failure in life is determined as much by how he acts during his leisure as by how he acts during his work hours. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how he is likely to spend the latter part of his life.
—B. C. Forbes (Scottish-born American Journalist)
The best hearts are ever the bravest.
—Laurence Sterne (Irish Anglican Novelist)
The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
—John F. Kennedy (American Head of State)