Darkly Comical Quotes

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The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn’t cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work. – William Feather

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of commonsense to apply it. – Persian Proverb

To save something each month develops self-control. This power frees one from fear and gives abiding courage. – Samuel Reyburn

The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. – Daniel Webster

All businesses proceeds on beliefs, or judgments or probabilities, and not on certainties. – Charles W. Eliot

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasure and genial feeling. – Cooleridge

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution. – John Burroughs

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owners knows not of. – Swift