It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
Steve Jobs

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Henry Ford

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore Roosevelt

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Margaret Thatcher

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatcher

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.
George Carlin

What one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
Orson Welles

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Thomas A. Edison

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
Thomas A. Edison

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim Morrison

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe