Quotes By William Feather

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.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

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.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

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.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

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

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

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

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.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

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.

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

He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.