success
On Success
“I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.”
Harry Truman
On Success
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, toiled ever upward through the night.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On Success
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.”
James Oppenheim
On Success
“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
Paulo Coelho
On Milton Berle
On Humor:
“You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think.”
“We owe a lot to Thomas Edison – if it wasn’t for him, we’d be watching television by candlelight.”
“Laughter is an instant vacation.”
On Success:
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
On Contribution
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Arthur Ashe
On Vision
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received — hatred. The great creators — the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors — stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.”
Ayn Rand
Elysian Waters 