Charles F. Kettering

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.

Life is a marathon, it’s not a sprint.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

If you believe you deserve better, you will create better for yourself.

I choose you, again and again at the start and finish of every single day, no matter the season, no matter the age. I choose you to struggle and succeed with, to fight and wake up with, to love and grow old with. I choose you, knowing there are still trails we must travel, knowing there are mountains left to climb. I choose you to always be by my side.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

The less you know, the more you believe.

The industrial value of leisure as a promoter of the consumption of goods, and thus as a stimulant to business have been proved.