If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)
One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
—Frank Moore Colby (American Educator)
Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn’t try to make every decision.
—Bill Gates (American Businessperson)
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)
Pleasure is a reciprocal; no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please.
—Earl of Chesterfield
Once our minds are ‘tattooed’ with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
—John C. Maxwell (American Christian Professional Speaker)
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
—Anton Chekhov (Russian Short Story Writer)
To do more for the world than the world does for you—that is success.
—Henry Ford (American Businessperson)
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of the circumstances.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
—David Starr Jordan (American Zoologist)