Well Quotes

"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

"Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing"

George Orwell, Author

"We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with"

Lillian Smith, Novelist

"We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments"

Tom Peters, Businessman

"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none"

Andrew Jackson, President

"It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered"

Horace, Poet

"Ambition can creep as well as soar"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune"

Horace, Poet

"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies"

Mel Gibson, Actor

"Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments"

Osama bin Laden, Criminal

"There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk"

James Joyce, Novelist

"I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

"Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance"

Dave Barry, Author

"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

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