Darkly Comical Quotes

The Secret of being tiresome is to tell everything. – Voltaire

Will is character in action. – William McDougall

‘Why’ and ‘how’ are words so important that they cannot be too often used. – Napoleon

They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing. – Hindu Proverb

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards. – Preston Bradley

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. – Plutarch

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension. – Goethe

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. – Janet Lane

Do little things now; so big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. – Persian Proverb

A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy to the other. – John Burroughs

The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on. – Joseph French Johnson