To return to the Epigram Guide Webpage.Socialism: 1) A sincere, sentimental, beneficent theory, which has but one objection, and that is, it will not work. 2) A plan by which the inefficient, irresponsible, ineffective, unemployable and unworthy will thrive without industry, persistence or economy. 3) An earnest effort to get Nature to change the rules for the benefit of those who are tired of the Game. 4) A social and economic scheme of government by which man shall loiter rather than labor. 5) A survival of the unfit. 6) A device for swimming without going near the H2O. 7) Participation in profits without responsibility as to deficits. 8) An arrangement for destroying initiative, invention, creation and originality. 9) Resolutions passed by a committee as a substitute for work. 10) A sentiment which encouraged and evolved would lead to revolution, with dynamiting and destruction as a prominent and recognized part of its propaganda. 11) A system for turning water into wine, kerosene into oyster soup, and boulders into bread, by passing resolutions.
It is what we think and what we do that make us what we are.
And remember this: Yesterday's successes belong to yesterday, with all of yesterday's defeats and sorrows. The day is Here. The time is Now.
Imagination is sympathy illumined by love and ballasted by brains.
Following the inner light: Doing what you want to do in spite of hell.
Fletcherize the lint less; read the "Essay on Silence" more; breathe and it is you for a raise.
Do your work as well as you can and be kind.
The world reserves its big prizes but for one thing, and that is Initiative. Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. Next to doing the thing without being told, is to do it when you are told once.
Remorse is the form that failure takes when it has made a grab and got nothing.
It is what we think and what we do that make us what we are.
Any man who moves people is going to get tongue-lashed and ink-spattered.
Instead of hitching your wagon to a star, suppose you just get in touch with the good-roads movement.
All I claim for myself is that I am right a part of the time. And that is better than to be dead wrong all the time, like some folks I know.
Strong people are not so much advertised by their loving friends as by their rabid enemies.
There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are always getting ready to do something, and those who go ahead and do it.
Do not grab for glory - do something and it will gravitate to you.
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often and loved much.
Nature needs you in her business and will keep you on earth just as long as you are useful.
I know that a certain attitude of mind and habit of action on my part will add to the peace, happiness and well being of other people.
Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.
There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are always getting ready to do something, and those who go ahead and do it.
Get up and get busy. Get an acre and live on it. Get a spade and dig. Get off the backs of the workers. Get the shirkers off your back. Get honest. Get busy.
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