-- Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

-- Hubert Humphrey
Behind every successful man stand a surprised mother-in-law.

-- Christine M. Huppert
Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know what they are going through, and they may need that smile. And treasure it.

-- Robert Hutchins
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

-- ICHING Taoist book of wisdom
Coming to an impasse, change, having changed, you will get through

-- Lee Iacocca
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere

-- Andrew Jackson
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

-- William James
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

-- Japanese Proverb
When you have completed 95% of your journey you are halfway there.

-- Jerome K. Jerome
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

-- Pope John XXIII
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

-- Samuel Johnson
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

-- Donald P. Jones
The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them.

-- W. Alton Jones
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.

-- Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

-- Joakim Jonsson
Don't do today what you can put off till tomorrow

-- Herbert Kaufman
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

-- Bil Keane
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

-- John Keats
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

-- Donald Kendall
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

-- Marilyn Moats Kennedy
It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

-- Charles Kettering
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

-- John Maynard Keynes
In the long run we are all dead.

-- Linden Kohtz
It is not the people that lift you up that matter but the people who keep you up

-- Jonathan Kozol
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

-- J. Krishnamurti
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

-- Irving Kristol
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place

-- Ray Kroc
You're only as good as the people you hire.

-- Alex Kroll
Getting ideas is like shaving: if you don't do it every day, you're a bum.

--Nikita Krushchev
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

--Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

-- La Rochefourauld
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.

– Doug Larson
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

-- Jennifer Leas
Frustration is when someone can't handle their own thoughts.

-- Robert Keith Leavitt
People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

-- Robert E. Lee
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.

-- Jay Leno
If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

-- Sam Levenson
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

--Claude Levi-Strauss
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

-- Stephen Levine
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?