Darkly Comical Quotes

People forget how fast you did a job—but they remember how well you did it. – Howard W. Newton

Flash powder makes a more brilliant light than the arc lamp, but you can’t use it to light your street corner because it doesn’t last long enough. Stability is more essential to success than brilliancy. – Richard Lloyd Jones

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. – Seneca

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature, if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you, know that the morning and spring of your life is past. Thus you may feel your pulse. – Henry Thoreau

Failures are divided into two classes – those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. – John Charles Salak

In spite of the fact that the ladder tapers to one-man rungs at the top, the roomiest part is farthest up. – Charles R. Gow

Most of us, swimming against tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we’ll make the goal. Say, “Thank you!” whenever you think about it. Say, “Nice job!” to that workman who put extra effort into his task. Say “Atta boy!” to the fellow who is struggling through in the face of odds. You’ll get a whale of a lot of joy out of life that way. And people will love you. – Jerome P. Fleishman