Source Unknown Quotes

A collection of quotes by Source Unknown.

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Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than yo

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

Service

The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service

The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world.

Service

Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman

Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman; Teach me to lose my selfish need, And glory in the larger deed, Which smothers the road and lights the day, For all who chance to come my way.

Service

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, t

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

Service

Make sure somebody need you.

Make sure somebody need you.

Service

A bar of iron costs $5, made into horseshoes its worth is $1

A bar of iron costs $5, made into horseshoes its worth is $12, made into needles its worth is $3500, made into balance springs for watches, its worth is $300, 000. Your own value is determined also by what you are able to make of yourself.

Self Respect

The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, co

The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense.

Senses

He who takes but never gives, may last for years but never l

He who takes but never gives, may last for years but never lives.

Selfishness

He who is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package

He who is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package.

Selfishness

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its un

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

Marriage

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

Marriage

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an inst

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Marriage

An ounce of intuition is worth a pound of tuition.

An ounce of intuition is worth a pound of tuition.

Intuition

It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense o

It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

Imagination

He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks w

He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries.

Imitation

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imaginat

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

Imagination

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gra

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

Identity

Everyone is a self-made person, but only the successful admi

Everyone is a self-made person, but only the successful admit it.

Independence

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Self Love

Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us abo

Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.

Identity