There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

Facts are stubborn things.
Ronald Reagan

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Thomas Jefferson

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
William Shakespeare

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Robert Kennedy

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
Ronald Reagan

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Thomas Jefferson

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy