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"Character matters; leadership descends from character"
Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer
"This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it"
Elmer Davis, Journalist
"You're never a loser until you quit trying"
Mike Ditka, Coach
"This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up"
Paul Castellano, Criminal
"A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed"
Lou Costello, Comedian
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him"
Forrest Tucker, Actor
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre"
Gail Godwin, Novelist
"Honor is simply the morality of superior men"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"Become a fixer, not just a fixture"
Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author
"Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one"
Mark Twain, Author
"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian"
Woody Allen, Director
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows"
Sydney J. Harris, Journalist
"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over"
Warren Buffett, Businessman
"The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share"
Roy L. Smith, Clergyman
"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree"
Roy L. Smith, Clergyman
"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do"
Olin Miller, Writer
"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river"
Ross Perot, Businessman
"They'll take everything, even your tears"
George Foreman, Athlete
"In politics, an organized minority is a political majority"
Jesse Jackson, Activist
"The best way to predict the future is to create it"
Peter Drucker, Businessman
"There are no gains without pains"
Adlai Stevenson, Politician
"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others"
Don Shula, Coach
"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
"A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused"
Shirley MacLaine, Actress
"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"
E. B. White, Writer
"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity"
Michael Porter, Educator
"You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution"
Robert F. Kennedy, Politician
"Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing"
Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it"
Mark Twain, Author
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman
"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character"
Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer
"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else"
Woody Allen, Director
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty"
Ronald Reagan, President
"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre"
Warren Buffett, Businessman
"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them"
P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist
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