Quotes & Sayings About Keeping Your Head Up In Hard Times

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production. — Edward Bellamy

You have this novel idea of the world, like it's made up of ladder hunting and test taking and framed plaques, all of which mean nothing to your current position. I know enough to know that you are dumb enough to believe in your ability, and that my friend is why you are given the opportunities to rise. — J.M. August

Let the night take you. Let the stars evaporate into your dreams. Let sleep be the only comfort for you to believe. — Anthony Liccione

How hideous, that there should be a pecking order in my grief. — Sonali Deraniyagala

could have laugh'd myself to scorn, to find In that decrepit Man so firm a mind. — William Wordsworth

Dad loves cheese. It doesn't agree with his digestive system very well, though. Dad also has the loudest, stinkiest farts in creation. I don't know how he manages to control them at work, or even if he does, but when he'd get home, he'd let them loose. They'd start as he walked up the stairs. Step, fart. Step, fart. Step, fart. I'd be laughing by the time he got to my room, and he'd lean over my bed and kiss me. His breath always smelled like peppermints. When — Sharon M. Draper

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk. — Gene Luen Yang

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary. — Carson Daly

Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit. — Napoleon Hill

It has long been observed, that an atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which they can influence, with more importunity of solicitation to adopt their opinions. In proportion as they doubt the truth of their own doctrines, they are desirous to gain the attestation of another understanding: and industriously labour to win a proselyte, and eagerly catch at the slightest pretense to dignify their sect with a distinguished name. — Samuel Johnson

But the fact is people who always have at least a quarter tank of gas and refill the tank as soon as it dips below that line will never run out of gas on a backwoods mountain road and have to be rescued by a kindhearted trucker. Or murdered by a non-kindhearted trucker. — Kelly Williams Brown

The Black Death was a faithful visitor to Florence. It arrived, on average, once every ten years, always in the summer. — Ross King