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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas Henry Huxley

There are three ways a man can be ruined: women, gambling, and farming. My father chose the most boring.
Pope John XXIII. 1881-1963

Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, teach education.
Nicolas Martin

It is dangerous to try to leap a chasm in two bounds.
Old Chinese Proverb

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

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Fred Brookes

Prosperity is a good teacher: adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt

It’s not the men in my life. It’s the life in my men.
Mae West

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

When the rich make war it’s the poor that die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip.
Cashie Stinnett

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
John Stuart Mill

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
General Charles de Gaulle

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
Heraclitus

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.
Pete Seegar

I would rather die fighting than fight dying.
Kevin Grant

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun, than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
Washington Allston

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
Oscar Ameringer

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller

I cannot hear what you say for the thunder of what you are.
Zulu Proverb

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a narrow field.
Niels Bohr

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
Winston Churchill

An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Don’t let your studies interfere with your education.
Henry Rutgers

He who laughs last, didn’t get the joke.
Unknown

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernhard Shaw

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.
Woody Allen

A smooth sea never made a skilful manner.
English Proverb

A liberal is man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on thee, and I’ll forgive thy great big one on me.
Frost

We are not lurching from fad to fad on a whim or impulse. Rather, we are journeying in a direction that is mostly, although not always, well signposted, informed by goals, or by a vision that reflects a core set of values.
Source Unknown

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but collectively can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
Alfred E.Smith

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
Matt Groening

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford

If you don’t have some bad loans, you’re not in business.
Paul Volcker

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving good advice.
Conor Cruise P’Brien

If it ain’t broke, break it.
Richard Pascale, management guru

The real problem is what to do with the problem solvers after the problems are solved.
G. Talese

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. Richard Harkness

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)

I can’t stand this proliferation of paperwork. It’s useless to fight the forms. You’ve got to kill the people producing them.
Vladimir Kabaidze

I dream of a company where people come to work everyday in a rush to try something they woke up thinking about the night before. We want them to go home from work wanting to talk about what they did that day, rather than trying to forget it. We want factories where the whistle blows and everybody wonders where the time went, and then somebody suddenly wonders aloud why we need the whistle. We want a company where people find a better way, everyday, of doing things, and where by shaping their own work experience, they make their lives better and their company the best.
Jack Welch.CEO. General Electric.

Victory goes to a player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman

Committee- a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
M. Berle

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald Reagan

You can’t do business sitting on your arse.
Lord MacLaurin

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
W. Wrigley Jnr

If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.
Coleman Hawking

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
John Kenneth Gabraith

Continuous Improvement is a journey, but it is a journey for pilgrims, not for nomads.
Anon

Observe the masses and do the opposite.
James Caan

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
Anatole France

We will either find a way or make one.
Hannibal (247-183 B.C.)

Oppose, adapt, adopt.
Benjamin Disraeli

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
Laurence J Peter

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves- and by which they are willing to be judged.
Frederick Smith

A journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step.
Lao-Tsze

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide

The art of war is to avoid big battles.
Sun Tzu

Dreaming is zero value. I mean, anyone can dream.
Bill Gates

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
Indira Gandhi

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
Don Herold

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis

He who never fell never climbed.
Unknown

Ask not of what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
John.F.Kennedy

Winning isn’t everything- it’s the only thing.
Vince Lombardi

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
Sidney Greenberg

The art of giving advice is to make the recipient believe he thought of it himself.
Frank Tyger

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Franklin

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
J-ules Feiffer

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Arthur Calwell

Success depends on your backbone, not on your wishbone.
Unknown

Good leaders must first become good servants.
Robert Greenleaf

You’ve got a goal. I’ve got a goal. Now all we need is a football team.
Groucho Marx

Fortune favours the brave.Terence

Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George Santayana

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
E. Joseph Cossman

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Ed Howe

Motivational

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Arthur Godfrey

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
Richard Nixon

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
John Shedd

It’s not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It’s what you do with your life that counts.
Millard Fuller

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition.
Nick Seitz

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S.Forbes

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Robert H.Schuller

Always forgive your enemies: nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vincent T.Lombardi

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes