An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Charles Caleb Colton

When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?

Ed O'Neill

There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be?

Steve Backley

Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you:stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

Jerry Rubin

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Douglas Adams

The doer alone learneth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

G. K. Chesterton

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

Charles Lamb

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

Alexis de Tocqueville