‘People don’t resent having nothing nearly as much as having too little.’ – Ivy Compton-Burnett
‘To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have’ – G. W. Lyon
‘Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one’s insistence that he possesses it.’ – Kenneth Bancroft Clark
‘They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.’ – Andy Warhol
‘Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.’ – James Baldwin
‘Americans have sought the value of everything in this world only in answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?’ – Alexis de Tocqueville
‘We Americans are the best informed people on the earth as to the last 24 hours; we are not the best informed as the events of the last 60 centuries.’ – Will Durant
‘A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when crossing a one-way street.’ – Laurence J. Peter
‘Constantly choosing the lesser o two evils is still choosing evil.’ – Jerry Garcia
‘The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers.’ – Ruth Benedict
‘Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.’ – Albert Schweitzer
‘The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this victory can never know defeat.’ – A. J. Cronin
‘What you want to do, you do. The rest is just talk.’ – John Cleek
‘The individual activity of one man with a backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.’ – J. H. Boetcher
‘It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is, What are we busy about?’ – Henry David Thoueau
‘By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.’ – Sidney J. Harris
‘Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.’ – Theodore Roosevelt
‘The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.’ – Cecil B. DeMille
‘Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong , and second- and best- in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night’s sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.’ – Theodor Fontane
