James Thurber

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.

Well if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Everyone deserves an equal chance at success.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Don’t count the things you do, do the things that count.

Remember this: Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack the same courage to do what is right.

Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Sometimes if you’re lucky someone comes into your life who’ll take up a place in your heart no one else can fill.

Make sure the product is worth your energy.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that is how we grow.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.