Henry Ford

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

No one can be helped unless he can be put in the way of helping himself.

There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.

That is what we are put in the world for, to get experience and to help others get it. It is the one thing no one can take away from us.

With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

Whatever it is, people who have more spare time than people ever had before get the sense of whirlwind pressure,and repeat the common criticism that ‘we are going too fast.’ Yet the people live longer than ever before, live with less effort, live on a higher plane. Is it possible that this common saying about our rapid pace is just another thoughtless mob suggestion?

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

You are writing your children’s future with your answers.

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people say about your work.

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.