Simplicity

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

                -Leo Tolstoy

Moderation

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

                -Frank McKinney Hubbard

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

                  -William Hazlitt

Modern Day Management

So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.

                -Peter Drucker

Nothing is sufficient for the man to whom the sufficient is too little.

  

       - Epicurus

Blessings v. Misfortunes

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

            -Charles Dickens

Ignorance

O God, help us not to despise or oppose what we do not understand.

            -William Penn

'Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you.'

All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

            -Thomas Carlyle

Work

Work keeps us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

            -Voltaire

A Book of Knowledge Left Blank

There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.

            -Kim Hubbard

Spread Thin & Shallow

Everywhere is nowhere.  When a person spends all this time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

            -Seneca

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

            -Robert Louis Stevenson

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I am merely a traveler through this life.  While I look forward to my arrival, there is joy in the journey.

     -K.Michael Prewitt

'To Bear All Things Patiently'

Consider, Sir, how insignificant this will appear a twelve-month hence.

            -Samuel Johnson

Self-Improvement

Man cannot remake himself without suffering.  For he is both the marble and the sculptor.

            -Alexis Carrel