Darkly Comical Quotes

The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn’t hear the referee. – H.E. Jansen

When no new thoughts fill the mind—when no new horizons beckon—when life is in the past, not the future—you are on your way to uselessness. – Dr. Frederick K. Stamm

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without surplus is controlled by them, and often he has no opportunity to exercise judgment. Harvey S. Firestone

Our most valuable possessions are those which can be shared without lessening—those which, when shared multiply. Our least valuable possessions, on the other hand, are those which, when divided, are diminished. – William H. Danforth

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. – Baldwin

A gentleman is one who it too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share of the world and lets other people have theirs. – Hoffman

I have seen boys on my baseball team go into slumps and never come out of them, and I have seen others snap right out and come back better than ever. I guess more players lick themselves than are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself. Training counts. You can’t win any game unless you are ready to win. – Connie Mack

The object of living is work, experience, happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us some one else’s work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. – Henry Ford

When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grieances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work and your life. If you don’t talk about your grievances, you’ll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly. – Thomas Dreier

Never take counsel of your fears. – Andrew Jackson