Favorite Quotes

I am a big fan of quotes. Things that make you go "Hmm."

My personal quote is:

"Accept the consequences of the truth and you'll never lie."

This one just spontaneously dropped in my brain when I was selling Toyotas in 1998.

Here are a few others:

The problem does not lie with the people hiding in shame.

It lies with the ones that shame them into hiding.

We spend money we haven't earned

To buy things we do not need

To impress people we do not like.

Never expect from someone what you are not willing to give.

Friends are like jewels - time and pressure reveals the true ones.

Be Your Own Best Friend.

There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going.

Strive to get on top in life, because it's the bottom that's overcrowded.

Nothing beats a failure but a try.

Almost all our unhappiness is the result of comparing ourselves to others.

He who never makes a mistake seldom makes anything else

If you want a thing bad enough
Go out and fight for it
Work day and night for it
Give up your time, peace, and sleep for it
If it is all that you dream and scheme about
And life seems useless and worthless without it
And you'll gladly sweat, fret, and plan for it
And lose all terror of the opposition for it
If you simply go after the thing that you want
With all your capacity, strength and sagacity
Faith, hope, and confidence
And stern pertinacity
If neither cold, poverty, famine, or gull sickness
Or pain of body and brain
Can keep you from the thing you want
If doggeded and grim you beseige and besaid it
With the help of God, you'll get it.

When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day
Just go to a mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.
For it isn't your father, or your mother or mate
Whose judgement upon you must pass
The one whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one staring back from the glass.
Some people may think you're a straight shootin' chum
And call you a wonderful guy
But the man in the glass knows you're only a bum
If you can't look him straight in the eye.
He's the the one to please, never mind all the rest
For he's with you clear to the end.
And you know you've passed your most dangerous test
If the man in the glass is your friend.
You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years
And get pats on your back as you pass
But your final reward will be heartache and tears
If you've cheated the man in the glass.