Morning Coffee Quotes

"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"You are writing your autobiography with your checkbook and calendar."
- David Cooper

"The word 'good' has many meanings. For instance, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of 500 yards, I would call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child."
- Frederick Buechner

"It is not enough to aim; you must hit."
- Italian Proverb

"None of us is as smart as all of us."
- Ken Blanchard

"There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of man."
- Polybius

"What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one."
- Helen Rowland

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
- Confucius

"I’ve always been haunted by the gap between theory and practice, the difference between what one thinks and teaches and what one does."
- Warren Bennis

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."
- Zig Ziglar

"Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming."
- Matthew Arnold

"Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn’t do."
- William S. Knudsen

"Don't let your worries get the best of you. Remember, Moses started as a basket case."
- Unknown

"The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing."
- Epictetus

"Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur."
- Henry Miller

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."
- John Barth

"The world pays more attention to your conduct than it does to your creed."
- Michael Guido

"Trusted counselors, mentors and guides make an indelible mark on the lives they touch, and they provide the two ingredients to success in life--caring and sharing--that cannot be learned or purchased."
- David Cottrell

"There is no success without a successor."
- Peter Drucker