Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

Charles Caleb Colton

Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect of the sudden inspiration of talent.

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Charles Caleb Colton

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

Charles Dickens

Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles Dickens

"Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?"

Charles Dickens

"Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't answer. Do you mind me, Nick? it don't answer. Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope, to the last!"

Charles Dickens

... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Spurgeon

You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.

Charles Spurgeon

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

Charles Spurgeon

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Charles Spurgeon

Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

Alan Hansen

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

Alan Jay Lerner

Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?

Alain Prost

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

Alain Prost

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

Dee Dee Warwick

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

Benjamin Franklin

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.

Bill Gates

You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses

Balthazar Getty

Life started getting good when I started making money.

Dave Ramsey

Work is a surefire money-making scheme.

David Stern

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

David Spade

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

Alisher Usmanov

Making money from money is like aerobatics.

Ann Wilson

Life can be dangerous; just let it be! When we shake off what we perceive as boundaries, that is where the bliss really is.