One Liners - Page 1

• What we say about others says more about us than about them.
  
  
• We do not need more knowledge, we need more character! - President Calvin Coolidge
  
  
• You can't get ahead while getting even. (Dick Armey)
  
  
• Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. - Vince Lombardi
  
  
• You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
  You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. (Abraham Lincoln)
  
  
• The only way out is through. (?Ralph Waldo Emerson or Robert Frost?)
  
  
• The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. (Elizabeth Taylor)
  
  
• All progress, all success, springs from thinking. (led Thomas Edison to file more than 1,000 patents)
  
  
• I read the Bible and the newspaper everyday, that way I know what both sides are up to. (Zig Ziglar 1/17/1998)
  
  
• The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  
  
• Best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them! (Mark Victor Hansen)
  
  
• When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. (Abraham Maslow-psychologist)
  
  
• To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. (J. Jenkins)
  
  
• Happiness depends on happinings, Joy depends on Jesus (Our Daily Bread 1998/6/3)
  
  
• An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees calamity in every opportunity. (Winston Churchill)
  
  
• When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us. (Alexander Graham Bell)
  
  
• When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute, but let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour... That's relativity. - Albert Einstein
  
  
• It's a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job, it releases tension needed for his work. - sculptor Henry Moore
  
  
• If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that (only) one of them is doing the thinking, - Lyndon Baines Johnson.
  
  
• Procrastination is the seed of self-destuction (Tim Bryan?)
  
  
• Pain is short-lived, but Pride lasts a lifetime (Elvis Stojko)
  
  
• Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought (John F. Kennedy)
  
  
• Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit.(P.J.O'Rourke)
  
  
• If a man trades his liberty for security... he deserves neither.
  (They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin 1759)
  
  
• Small Minds talk about People; Average Minds talk about things; Great Minds talk about Ideas.
  
  
• Evil prevails when good men and women do nothing.
  
  
• If you don't have time to do it right the first time, why think you'll have time to do it over?
  
  
• If you want something you've never had, you must do something you've never done.
  
  
• Nobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else. (Coach John Wooden, UCLA "They Call Me Coach")
  
  
• Make measurable progress in reasonable time or make substantial changes.
  
  
• If you don't stop where you're going, you'll end up where you're headed.
  
  
• Good things come to those who wait... but when they come, they're out of date. But here's a rule that's slicker... He who goes for what he wants, will get it that much quicker.
  
  
• 10% of the people in this country own 90% of the wealth because of their habits and attitudes!
  
  
• The majority sees the obstacles, and only a few see the objectives. History records the latter. (Helen Keller)
  
  
• Few things are harder to put up with, than the annoyance of a good example. (Mark Twain)
  
  
• Luck is a loser's excuse for a winner's commitment. (Dexter Yager)
  
  
• Goals are perspiration, Dreams will always be the Inspiration. (Jody Victor)
  
  
• Quitters make a decision not to win, Winners make a decision not to quit.