Life has a higher end than to be amused.
—William Ellery Channing, 1837, An Address on Temperance (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
The default path is to slip into the unconscious motion of life, becoming a mere passenger on the train rather than an architect of the journey. Through regular reflection on our purpose, we maintain control over our direction.
—Mike
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
—Jim Rohn (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
God made man in his own image, and man has returned the favor.
—Voltaire (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
—Victor Hugo, French Romantic author and playwright (by Étienne Carjat, 1876; Public Domain)
The most important thing in communication is the ability to hear what isn’t said.
—Peter Drucker, Austrian-American management pioneer (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it; work at it until it is done right.
—Walt Disney (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
—Daniel Goleman, author of “Emotional Intelligence” (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
—Victor Hugo (1876, by Étienne Carjat; Public Domain)
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1893, by Henry Walter Barnett; Public Domain)
If you consult a doctor, he gives you medicine. If you consult a lawyer, he gives you advice. If you consult an author, he gives you a copy of his book.
—Arthur Evelyn Waugh, English author (1940, by Carl Van Vechten; Public Domain)
