When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Lee Iacocca

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
Lee Iacocca

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
Woodrow Wilson

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
Woodrow Wilson

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
Charlie Chaplin

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
Charlie Chaplin

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
Rudyard Kipling

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
Rudyard Kipling

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Orson Welles

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
Booker T. Washington

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
Booker T. Washington

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Booker T. Washington

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington