Darkly Comical Quotes

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If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it. – Roger Babson

Most business men generally are so busy coping with immediate and piecemeal matters that there is a lamentable tendency to let the “long run” or future take care of itself. We often are so busy “putting out fires,” so to speak, that we find it difficult to do the planning that would prevent those fires from occurring in the first place. As a prominent educator has expressed it, Americans generally “spend so much time on things that are urgent that we have none left to spend on those that are important.” – Gustav Metzman

Some of us have turned our freedom into exploitation, our land into a dust bowl. We can’t make a nation strong when it is held together by the rotten rope of self-interest. Too often we think of democracy only in terms of getting our rights. – Joseph R. Sizoo, D.D.

We sometimes speak of winning reputation as though that were the final goal. The truth is contrary to this. Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much-much is forever after expected. – Alvan Macauley

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. – Christopher Morley

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests. – A.J. Nock