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The best quote you have ever heard?

I'm looking for great quotes, not movie quotes or profanity. Solid business or personal excellence quotes are best. What's the best one you have heard or saved?

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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago
    Favorite Answer

    This is my favorite: "If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning!"

  • Kermit
    Lv 4
    2 decades ago

    Looks like you've got a good crop already but here a couple...

    Favorite on politics: "It' such a pity that everybody who actually knows how to run the country are too busy driving cabs and cutting hair." George Burn.

    Favority on Business: "I love deadlines, especially the whoosing noise they make as they fly by" Douglas Adams

  • 2 decades ago

    Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

    Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough For Love

  • 2 decades ago

    The most beautiful things on earth can't be seen or heard, but felt with the heart. -Helen Keller

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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." ~William Pitt

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    if it was easy anyone could do it

    living off borrowed time the clock ticks faster

  • 2 decades ago

    When the goings get tough the tough get going.

    Source(s): An American saying
  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    Our lives are lived forward but read backwards.

  • 2 decades ago

    Here's three of my favorites.

    If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where you tied it up.

    Where ever you go there you are.

    He who shall, so shall he who.

  • 2 decades ago

    Don't frown, you never know who is falling in love with your smile!

  • 2 decades ago

    If you want to learn how to do something, ask someone who has already done it.

    Source(s): Jack Zufelt
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