American Quotes

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.