Some of my favorite quotes:

"All Power Corrupts, and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely"

Lord Action  (1834-1902)

 

"A Writer is Rarely So Well Inspired as When He Talks About Himself"

Anatole France (1844-1924)

 

"One Change Leaves The Way Open For The Introduction Of Another"

Niccolo Machiavelli  (1469-1527)

 

"Character Is What We Are In The Dark"

Dwight Moody  (1837-1899)

 

"If Children Grew Up According To Early Indications, We Would Have Nothing But Geniuses"

Johann Wolfgang von Gothe (1749-1832)

 

"Before I Got Married I Had Six Theories About Bringing Up Children; Now I Have Six Children And No Theories"

John Wilmot (1647-1680)

 

"The City Is Not A Concrete Jungle.  It Is A Human Zoo"

Desmond Morris (1928-  )

 

"People Never Lie So Much As After A Hunt, During a War, Or Before An Election"

Otto Von Bismark (1815-1898) 

 

"Whenever People Are Well Informed They Can Be Trusted With Their Own Government"

Thomas Jefferson  (1743-1826)

This, however, requires an ubiased press and people who want to know the truth! 

 

"He Means Well' Is Usless Till He Does Well"

Plautus  (254-184BC) 

 

"It Takes Two To Speak The Truth - One To Speak, And Another To Hear"

Jerome K. Jerome  (1859-1927) 

 

"A Glimps of the Next Three Feet of Road is More Important Than a View of the Horizon" 

C.S. Lewis  (1898-1963)

 

"Public Opinion is an Attempt to Organize the Ignorance of the Community and to Elevate it to the Dignaty of Physical Force" 

Oscar Wilde  (1854-1900) 

 

"Wealth will make you more of what you are."  If you are a jerk and you become wealthy, you will become the king of the jerks!

Dave Ramsey (The Total Money Makover - 2003) 

 

"We make a living by what we get, but make a life by what we  give" 

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) 

 

"I have not gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended up where I needed to be"

Douglas Adams   (1952-2001)

 

"You have to learn the rules of the game, then you have to play better than anyone else"

 Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 

"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent"

Norman Ralph Augustine (1935- )

 

"You can not build a reputation on what you are going to do"

Henry Ford  (1863-1947)

 

"Beware of the barrenness of a busy life"

Socrates

 

"Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure"

Sochiro Honda

 

"Raise the sail with your stronger hand, you must go after the opportunities you are best equipped to do"

Sochiro Honda

 

An organized minority can always defeat an unorganized majority!

(slogan of the AMA)

 

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau