If people really liked to work, we’d still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
WILLIAM FEATHERThe wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
More William Feather Quotes
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
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Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
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Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
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The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
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That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
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Beware of the person who can’t be bothered by details.
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Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
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If you’re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don’t like.
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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
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Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine.
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He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
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Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
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A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.
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An idea isn’t worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
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If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
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Few of us get anything without working for it.
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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
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Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help.
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Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
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Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
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