inspirational quotes about success

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. ~Barry Goldwater



In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks, and those to whom they are addressed should be big and tall of stature. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~Dorothy Parker (Thanks, Kaitlin) The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~Dorothy Parker (Thanks, Kaitlin)



Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. ~Judge Sturgess



Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ~Bertrand Russell



Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity. ~Dennis Ritchie



If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. ~George Bernard Shaw



To Crystal, hair was the most important thing on earth. She would never get married because you couldn't wear curlers in bed. ~Edna O'Brien



Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising. ~Bert Greene



I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



An apology is a good way to have the last word. ~Author Unknown



Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. ~George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1921



A leader is a dealer in hope. ~Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed



When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. ~Steven Wright



Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ~Proverbs 22:6



The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes. ~Aubrey Menen



Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again. ~Chinese inscription cited by Thoreau in Walden



Our land is everything to us. It is the only place in the world where Cheyennes talk the Cheyenne language to each other. It is the only place where Cheyennes remember the same things together. I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it - with their life. ~John Wooden Legs, "Back on the War Ponies," 1960, quoted in We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History, edited by Nathaniel May and Clint Willis



O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!