When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
John F. Kennedy

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Theodore Roosevelt

With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
Theodore Roosevelt

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore Roosevelt

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Confucius

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates