Morning Coffee Quotes

The Sky Glider at the 2010 Iowa State Fair

"A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd."
- Garrison Keillor

"There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply."
- Marilyn vos Savant

"Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya."
- Walter Kaufmann

"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
- George Eliot

"Treat the other man’s faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine."
- Henry S. Haskins

"The Law of the Big Mo: 'Momentum is a leader’s best friend'."
- John C. Maxwell

"Seek first to understand and then to be understood."
- Stephen R. Covey

"He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, then spare yourself."
- Walter Scott

"Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying."
- Frank Burford

"If you don't go fishing because you thought it might rain you will never go fishing. This applies to more than fishing."
- Gary Sow

"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why."
- Bernard Baruch

"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."
- Henry Boye

"Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him."
- Johann Kaspar Laveter