In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.
—Woody Allen (American Actor)
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)
The virtuous man is driven by responsibility; the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
—Confucius (Chinese Philosopher)
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
—Mortimer J. Adler (American Philosopher)
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
—Leo Rosten (Russian-born American Humorist)
If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you’re going to turn out in life.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)
Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you.
—Wallace Wattles (American New Thought Author)
The lion who breaks the enemy’s ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (Persian Muslim Mystic)
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (Swiss Philosopher)
The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.
—Taiichi Ohno (Japanese Manufacturing Engineer)
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
—Charles Evans Hughes (American Elected Rep)
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much from a man!
—Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian Playwright)
When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)
Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
—James Joyce (Irish Novelist)