1.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of

enthusiasm.
2. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty.
3. You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.
4. If you are going through hell, keep going.
5. Never, never, never give up.
6. Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being
taught.
7. Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries.
8. Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.
9. Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that
counts.
10. It is not in our power to anticipate our destiny.
11. My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
12. To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often.
13. The price of greatness is responsibility.
14. All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken
out of me.
15. I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
16. In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is
sound is disagreeable.
17. You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something in your life.
18. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
19. One ought to be just before one is generous.
20. To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be
the thoughtless act of a single day.
21. It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose
behind them.
22. Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
23. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit
down and listen.
24. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
25. I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
26. Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our
potential.
27. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been
said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.
28. Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.
29. For myself I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything
else.
30. One always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather.
31. Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.
32. To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three
hobbies, and they must all be real.
33. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
34. It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be
grasped one link at a time.
35. Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference.
36. It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.
37. Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could
make a good peace would never have won the war. —
38. Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of
all.
39. We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
40. If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find that we
have lost the future.
41. It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a
critic.
42. I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.
43. There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is
that half of them are true.
44. Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look
forward to the trip.
45. You must put your head into the lion’s mouth if the performance is to be a
success.
46. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
47. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.
48. The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
49. Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
50. If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
51. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the
average voter.
52. There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
53. Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
54. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its
pants on.
55. I may be drunk Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be
ugly.