Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

To make headway, improve your head.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first rate truck driver than a tenth rate executive.

A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

Work is the meat of life pleasure the dessert.

The truth doesnt hurt unless it ought to.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.