Source Unknown Quotes

A collection of quotes by Source Unknown.

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The best pedigree in the world won't sell a lame race horse.

The best pedigree in the world won't sell a lame race horse.

Mediocrity

Junk is something you keep for years and then throw out two

Junk is something you keep for years and then throw out two weeks before you need it.

Consumerism

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

Marriage

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

Marriage

Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'

Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.

Maturity

If you see ninety-nine people running one way and three goin

If you see ninety-nine people running one way and three going the opposite, don't be too quick to join the majority.

Masses

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosin

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Maturity

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exa

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

Marriage

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of fo

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Committee

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to figh

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

Marriage

Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do wi

Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

Leadership

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

Leadership

It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

Laughter

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

Leadership

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, bu

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

Leadership

The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround him

The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.

Leadership

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where oth

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

Leadership

If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

Laughter

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

Leadership

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

Laughter