Inspirational Quotes

Many of life's failures are people who did not
realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison-

MISTAKE

If you have made mistakes,
there is always another chance for you.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down,
but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford-

Mistakes are painful when they happen,
but years later a collection of mistakes
is what is called experience.
- Denis Waitley-

"Your best teacher is your last mistake."
-Ralph Nader -

POLITICS

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing,
you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
The one that's out always looks the best.
-Will Rogers-

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
-Henry Cate VII-

I once said cynically of a politician,
'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'
-Oscar Levant-

The reason there are so few female politicians is
that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
-Maureen Murphy -

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
-Alfred E. Newman-

POVERTY

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness;
poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard-
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Aristotle

POWER

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
-Stewart L. Udall-

PUBLIC OFFICE

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-Aesop-

END

When you get to the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on."
-Franklin Roosevelt-

ENVY

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him
Won’t have time to envy the man above him.
- Henrietta Mears-

REPUTATION

You can't build a reputation
on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford

SECRET

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

--Benjamin Franklin

SPENDING

On the subject of spending, it's interesting to note what Benjamin Franklin
thought of the topic. Of course, it was written in his earlier years, he was much more liberal with his money later on.

You may think, perhaps, that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little more entertainment now and then can be no great matter but remember what Poor Richard says "Many a little
makes a mickle; beware of little expense for a small leak will sink a great ship."
- Benjamin Franklin-

A child and a fool imagine twenty shillings
and twenty years can never be spent.
-Benjamin Franklin-

THINKING

"Thinking is the hardest work there is which is probably
why so few people engage in it.”
- Henry Ford-

TROUBLES

I have known a great many troubles,
but most of them never happened.
-Mark Twain-

YESTERDAY

Now that it's all over,
what did you really do yesterday
that's worth mentioning?
-Coleman Cox-

WAR

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars
for young men to die in.
-George McGovern -

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
-A. J. P. Taylor-

We can best help you to prevent war
not by repeating your words and following your methods
but by finding new words and creating new methods.
- Virginia Woolf-