William Feather Quotes

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

"No man is a failure who enjoys life"

"Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information you get."

"Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times."

"Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it."

"Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right."

"Few of us get anything without working for it."

"Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you."

"When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children."

"Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious."

"Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim."

"The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can."

"The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes."

"Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it."

"It's often a good idea to let the other fellow believe he is running things whether he is or not."

"Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard."

"Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age."

"Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top"

"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."

"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."