quotes on success and hard work

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. ~Mae West



If you're not a rebel by the age of twenty, you've got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by thirty, you've got no brains. ~Swimming with Sharks, 1994, written & directed by George Huang, spoken by the character Buddy Ackerman played by Kevin Spacey



There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence." ~O. Hallesby



One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ~Thomas Fuller



I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness. ~Julia Peterkin, A Plantation Christmas, 1934



A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. ~Louis A. Berman



Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson



Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. ~William Shakespeare



Quilters never cut corners. ~Author Unknown



You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind. ~Sri Sathya Sai Baba



An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. ~Charles Horton Cooley



You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He is more particular.... The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. ~Robert Frost



Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. ~Bill Veeck



The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. ~Thurgood Marshall



Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison



A question asked in a Surrey school exam went: "Why do cocks crow early every morning?" A twelve-year-old replied: "My dad says they have to make the most of it while the hens are asleep." ~Quoted in the Peterborough Daily Telegraph, 1983



There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both. ~James Reston



Wine is sure proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ~Benjamin Franklin



A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. ~Author Unknown