Quotes Added in November 2007

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.John Fitzgerald Kennedy

• action
• risk

There's nothing more useless than someone who comes to the end of the day and congratulates himself, saying, "Well, I made it through the day without screwing up."John Maxwell

• mediocrity

To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway.John Maxwell

• courage
• bravery
• fear

Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's okay to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.H. Stanley Judd

• failure

Too many people, when they make a mistake, just keep stubbornly plowing ahead and end up repeating the same mistakes. I believe in the motto, "Try and try again." But the way I read it, it says, "Try, then stop and think. Then try again."William Singleton

• mistakes

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.James Madison

• national defense
• tyranny

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.George Washington

• freedom
• liberty

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.Sir Winston Churchill

• taxes

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.Frederic Bastiat

• government
• welfare
• socialism