Funny Is healthy

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.


A Constitution should be short and obscure.


A leader is a dealer in hope.


A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.


A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.


A picture is worth a thousand words.


A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.


A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.


A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.


A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.


A true man hates no one.


Ability is nothing without opportunity.


All religions have been made by men.


Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.


Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.


An army marches on its stomach.


Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.


Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.


Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.


England is a nation of shopkeepers.


Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.


Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.


France has more need of me than I have need of France.


From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.


Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.


Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.


He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.


He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.


History is a set of lies agreed upon.


History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.


I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.


I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.


I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.


I have only one counsel for you - be master.


I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.


I made all my generals out of mud.


If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.


If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.


If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.


If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.


Imagination rules the world.


Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.


In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.


In politics stupidity is not a handicap.


In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.


It is the cause and not the death that makes the martyr.


It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.


It requires more courage to suffer than to die.


Let the path be open to talent.


Medicines are only fit for old people.


Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.


Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.


Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.


Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.


Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.


Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.


One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.


One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.


Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.


Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.


Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.


Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.


Respect the burden.


Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.


Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.


Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.


Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.


Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.


The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.


The army is the true nobility of our country.


The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.


The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.


The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.


The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.


The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.


The French complain of everything, and always.


The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.


The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.


The human race is governed by its imagination.


The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.


The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.


The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.


The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.


The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.


The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.


The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.


The word impossible is not in my dictionary.


There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.


There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.


There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.


There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.


There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.


Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.


To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.


Victory belongs to the most persevering.


War is the business of barbarians.


Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.


We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.


What is history but a fable agreed upon?


When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.


When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.


With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.


Women are nothing but machines for producing children.


You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.


You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A goal is a dream with a deadline.


Action is the real measure of intelligence.


All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.


All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.


Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.


Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.


Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.


Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.


Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.


Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.


Don't wait. The time will never be just right.


Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.


Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.


Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.


Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.


Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.


Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.


Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.


First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.


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


Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.


Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.


Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.


If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.


If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.


If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.


It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.


It is always your next move.


It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.


It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.


Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.


Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.


Money without brains is always dangerous.


More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.


Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.


Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.


No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.


No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.


No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.


One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.


Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.


Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.


Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.


Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.


Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.


Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.


Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.


The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.


The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.


The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.


The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.


The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.


The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.


The starting point of all achievement is desire.


The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.


The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.


The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.


There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.


There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.


Think and grow rich.


Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.


Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.


Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.


War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.


We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.


When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.


When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.


Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.


You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.


You give before you get.


You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.


Your ability to use the principle of auto suggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.


Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
Napoleon Hill