Thing Quotes

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher

Success, Work, Hard

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Power, Same

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway

Happiness, Rarest

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
Zig Ziglar

Life, Money, Important

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Muhammad Ali

Life, Thought, Losing

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare

Happiness, Through, Eyes

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller

Vision, Blind, Worse

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Bruce Lee

Time, Thinking, Done

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi

Time, Winning, Win

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
Tennessee Williams

Liar, Hypocrite, Worse

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Change, Small, Thoughtful

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin

Good, Rain, Sunshine

There is no such thing as a good tax.
Winston Churchill

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats

Beauty, Joy, Forever

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
Dalai Lama

Life, Good, Men

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack Obama

Working, Last, Economy

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain

Made, Small, Large

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Experience, Nothing

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Mark Twain

Truth, Valuable, Economize

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Success, Men

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
W. Clement Stone

Life, Truth, Courage

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Winston Churchill

Important, Honest, Fine

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
Jim Rohn

Hurt, Give, Try

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie

Life, Confidence, Easy

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Mark Twain

Good, Before, Said

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.
Dalai Lama

Important, Human, Public

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.
Dalai Lama

Else, Far, Concerned

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Winston Churchill

Opinion, Public, Published

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

End, Daily, Depression

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