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1. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford
2. It is always the best policy to speak the truth–unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome
3. War doesn’t determine who’s right - only who’s left. Bertrand Russell
4. Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C.S. Lewis
5. If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. George Bernard Shaw
6. If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse. Henry Ford
7. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. Vincent Van Gogh
8. The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. Jill Churchill
9. The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life. Sir Hugh Walpole
10. If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer. Martin Luther King
11. The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot
12. The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. Ralph W. Sockman
13. Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. Samuel Butler
14. It’s my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln
15. Bring me solutions, not problems. Margaret Thatcher
16. Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls. Henry Ford
17. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower
18. Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. C. S. Lewis
19. Never mistake a clear view for a short distance. Paul Saffo
20. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight Eisenhower
21. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Winston Churchill
22. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
23. It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either. Mark Twain
24. Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold Geneen
25. The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. John Sladek
26. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford
27. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Einstein
28. Is sex dirty? Only if it’s done right. Woody Allen
29. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. Henry Ford
30. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher
31. One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown
32. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln
33. Lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw
34. The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. Anonymous
35. Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. Henry Ford
36. I don’t think I’ve mastered anything.I’m still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That’s what life is like. Harrison Ford
37. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford
38. If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. Margaret Thatcher
39. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Henry Ford
40. Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better. Samuel Beckett
41. The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught. Marquis de Vauvenargues
42. I’m the best. I just haven’t played yet. Muhammad Ali
43. I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done. Henry Ford
44. Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe
45. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine
46. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley
47. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford
48. If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim. Margaret Thatcher
49. My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. Indira Gandhi
50. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. Kenneth Blanchard
51. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King
52. The road to success is always under construction. Anonymous
53. Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. Ambrose Bierce
54. Don’t find fault, find a remedy. Henry Ford
55. Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. Thomas Paine
56. A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; A woman loses hers after four kisses. H.L. Mencken
57. When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves. Henry Ford
58. He who can does - he who cannot, teaches. George Bernard Shaw
59. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov
60. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford
61. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. Emerson
62. The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King
63. He who enjoys doing and enjoys what is has done is happy. Goethe
64. The greatest sin of our time is not the few who have destroyed but the vast majority who sat idly by. Martin Luther King
65. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa
66. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington
67. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. Admiral Grace Hopper
68. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville
69. An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. Henry Ford
70. Lead, follow or get out of the way! George S. Patton
71. Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude. Dr. Martin Luther King
72. A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. Hippocrates
73. If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right! Henry Ford
74. You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin
75. I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. Abraham Lincoln
76. I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. Martin Luther King
77. The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. Edgar Poe
78. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato
79. He that would live in peace and at ease, Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. Benjamin Franklin
80. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower
81. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Henry Ford
82. Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor nor should life rest on a single hope. Epictetus
83. Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln
84. If you are going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill
85. In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson
86. Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Anonymous

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