Quotes

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. If you're going through hell, keep going. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

-Winston Churchill

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

-Woodrow Wilson

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. One man with courage makes a majority. Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

-Andrew Jackson

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

-Ann Frank

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day. The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

-Benito Mussolini

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

-Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said

-Benjamin Franklin

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

-FDR

Be the change you want to see in the world

-Gahndi

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

-George Washington

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

-John F Kennedy

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. Whatever you are, be a good one.

-Lincoln

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. A leader is a dealer in hope. He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

-Napoleon

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

-Ronald Reagan

Fascism is capitalism plus murder. I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

-upton Sinclair

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Thomas Jefferson

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Tim Ferris