Quotation Collection

The sum of wisdom is, that the time is never lost that is devoted to work. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• work
• time
• effort

Even on the biological level life is not like a river but like a tree. It does not move towards unity but away from it and the creatures grow further apart as they increase in perfection. Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good. Clive Staples Lewis

• perfection

You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe. Marion Blakey

• legacy
• candor

The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility. Calvin Coolidge

• America
• work
• opportunity