Morning Coffee Quotes

Storm Clouds (photo taken by Cindy Caraway)

"It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one'."
- C. S. Lewis

"If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys."
- James Goldsmith

"It is tact that is golden, not silence."
- Samuel Butler

"Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust."
- Zig Ziglar

"I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it."
- Steve Martin

"It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world."
- Will Durant

"On every summit, you are on the brink of an abyss."
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

"True friendship isn't about being there when it's convenient; it's about being there when it's not."
- Unknown

"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully."
- Steve Jobs

"A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist."
- Franklin P. Jones

"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
- Harold Geneen

"Faith is not a thing which one loses; we merely cease to shape our lives by it."
- Georges Bernanos

"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."
- Henry Brooks Adams

"The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility."
- Arthur Miller

"To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day."
- W. Somerset Maugham

"If you can’t have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live."
- George E. Woodberry

"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares."
- Henri Nouwen