Quotes By William Feather

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.