There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!
It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
The best thing in life aren't things.
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.
The best work never was and never will be done for money.
The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.
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