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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.
Topic: Perseverance
Author: Robert Strauss
Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: M Anthony Burns
Accurate information is a key part of motivation.
Topic: Motivation
Author: Mary Ann Allison
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
Topic: Speech
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse, As undertakers walk before the hearse.
Topic: Acting
Author: David Garrick
When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?
Topic: Drinking
Author: Robert Browning
Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Topic: Revenge
Author: Francis Bacon
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Topic: Nationalism
Author: Charles De Gaulle
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: David Friedman
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Topic: Life
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Topic: Leadership
Author: Dwight D Eisenhower
There is but little in this world which can go wrong because everything is a blessing in disguise.
Topic: World
Author: Kazi Shams
Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
Topic: Baby
Author: Carl Sandburg
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Topic: Sports
Author: Woodrow Wilson
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
Topic: Freedom of the Press
Author: Adlai E Stevenson
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them fly, Thy arm directs those lightnings through the sky. Then let the good Thy mighty name revere, And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear.
Topic: Storms
Author: Sir Walter Scott