Wagons Quotes

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  Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Horse, Business

  The Economist, July 6, 2012.

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• A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• Hitch your wagon to a star.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Quoted in Moncare D. Conway, The Golden Hour (1862)

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• You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

  Mark McCormack

  Wheels

  Mark H. McCormack (1989). “What they still don't teach you at Harvard Business School”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

  Laozi

  Moving, Space, House

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• Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.

  Bob Dylan

  Littles, Monkeys, Red

  Song: Buckets of Rain, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

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• If you don't fall off the wagon regularly, you're not playing a big enough game.

  David Allen

  Fall, Games, Enough

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• In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Business, Track, Importunate

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.217, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We've become a nation of indoor cats, he'd said. A nation of doubters, worriers, overthinkers. Thank God these weren't the kind of Americans who settled this country. They were a different breed! They crossed the country in wagons with wooden wheels! People croaked along the way, and they barely stopped. Back then, you buried your dead and kept moving.

  Dave Eggers

  Country, Moving, Cat

  Dave Eggers (2012). “A Hologram for the King”, p.13, McSweeney's

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• Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

  Tim Allen

  Funny, Witty, Dating

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• Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Stars, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.437, Harvard University Press

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• If you do not believe in co-operation, look what happens to a wagon that loses a wheel.

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Looks, Wheels

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.40, Penguin

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• It's very rare that people let me hop off the crazy wagon.

  Jimmi Simpson

  Crazy, People, Hops

  Source: collider.com

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• You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You've heard that old axiom: 5% of the people pull the wagon; 95% are in it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Population, Want

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• Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

  John Madden

  Horse, Nfl, Worry

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• It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  Barack Obama

  Realizing, Greatest Leadership, Leaders Motivational

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.

  Buffalo Bill

  Father, Home, Leaving

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

  Thomas Hobbes

  Animal, Body, Spirit

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• I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

  Dolley Madison

  Paper, Cabinets, Impossible

  Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either.

  Carrie Underwood

  Oklahoma, People, Cows

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• I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

  Jane Addams

  Responsibility, Night, Wagon Wheels

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• The to Cathal was battered and only one wagon wide, with swells of hard earth where mud had frozen during cold ad rainy seasons. Enna tripped often, and cursed each time she tripped, until Dasha said, "Enna, you might watch your language." Enna grimaced. "I was. You should hear my thoughts.

  Shannon Hale

  Watches, Frozen, Earth

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.79, A&C Black

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• People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn't hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.

  George Matthew Adams

  Stars, Eye, Sky

  George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.22, Ravenio Books

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• We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

  Laozi

  Moving, Together, Wheels

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• Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.

  Napoleon Hill

  Essentials, Wagon Wheels, Initiative

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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