Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn

God makes stars. I just produce them.
Samuel Goldwyn

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
Walt Whitman

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Jim Morrison

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Jonathan Swift

Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Charles de Gaulle

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Dickinson

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson