Clever, one-liner quotes

Never miss a good chance to shut up. (Will Rogers)

Don’t try to have the last word. You might get it. (Robert Heinlein)

A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being frank. (Robert Heinlein)

Arguing with a fool proves there are two. (Doris M Smith)

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! (Doug Larson)

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. (Rita Mae Brown)

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. (Ben Stein)

I’ve never learned from a man who agreed with me. (Robert Heinlein)

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. (Winston Churchill)

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. (Oscar Wilde)

A friend is a present you give yourself. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. (William James)

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. (Albert Schweitzer)

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. (Aristotle)

Men’s natures are alike. It is their habits that carry them far apart. (Confucius)

We must be the change we wish to see. (Gandhi)

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)

Would you like me to give you a formula for success?It’s quite simple really. Double your rate of failure. (Thomas J.Watson)

A thousand words will not leave as deep an impression as one deed. (Henrik Ibsen)

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. (Andrew Carnegie).

Dreams don’t work unless do you. (John C. Maxwell)

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. (Dale Carnegie)

The best way out is always through. (Robert Frost)

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you’ll be criticized anyway. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Happiness is not a goal; it’s a by-product. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more. (Merle Shain)

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie)

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. (Napoleon Hill)

Ultimately, we know deeply that the other side of fear is freedom. (Marilyn Ferguson)

I’m afraid to show you who I really am. If I show you who I really am, you mightn’t like it — and that’s all I’ve got. (Sabina Ward-Harrison)

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. (Richard Bach)

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it…that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. (Dale Carnegie)

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. (Hasidic saying)

A true friend is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. (Len Wein)

Following the herd is a sure way to mediocrity. (Patti Wilson)

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. (Helen Keller)

No-one can make you feel inferior without your permission. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Respect yourself and others will respect you. (Confucius)

It takes years to build up trust, and just seconds to destroy it. (Unknown).

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. (Confucius)

We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don’t. (Frank A. Clark)

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.  (Peter Drucker)

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. (Stephen Covey)

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.  (Peter Drucker)

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.  (Lucille S. Harper)