Saturday, April 4, 2009

Darkly Comical Quotes

Think as you work, for in the final analysis your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems but in anticipating them. – H.H. Ross

The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You’ve got to keep working that talent. – Irving Berlin

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. – Logan Pearsall Smith

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. – William James

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. – Epictetus

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.
James Oliver

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. – H. Ballou

A panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. – Bovee

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. – Philip James Bailey

The true meaning of faith is to vigorously prepare.

It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading emotion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use it safely. The hatred we think we are directing against some person or thing or system has a devilish way of turning back on us. When we seek revenge we administer slow poison to ourselves. When we administer affection it is astonishing what magical results we obtain. – Thomas Dreier

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