funny sayings

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt.

One life; a little gem of time between two eternities; no second chance for us forevermore.

For this I see, that we, all we that live,
Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.


When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.


Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Only int

The whole secret to a successful life it to find out what it is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.


Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

Life, like a dome of many colored glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.



Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.

There are no gains without pains.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.


How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives.


One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Maturity of mind is capacity to endure uncertainty.


Remember no human condition is ever per

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefor, is not an act but a habit.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.


Life is a building. It rises slowly, day by day, through the years. Every new lesson we learn lays a block on the edifice which is rising silently within us. Every experience, every touch of another life on ours, every infl

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.



The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and the other begins?

It's a very short trip. While alive, live.

We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, b

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world.

We are here to add what we can to, not what we can get from, life.

Man's most judici

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.


Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.



The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.


The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Life'

Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

Pursue worthy aims.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Trust your hopes, not your fears.

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.


Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.

Life is like a library o

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten,
but they may start a winning game.


In the long run, men only hit what they aim at.

Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.



Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insuffi

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.


Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never have tried to succeed.

There is no success without hardship.

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest m