William Feather quote: "Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life."

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. - The Treasure o...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885 ...
WILLIAM FEATHER

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tel...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

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

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good...
WILLIAM FEATHER

Know and believe in yourself, and what others think won't disturb you.
WILLIAM FEATHER

An education isnt how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. Its being able t...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

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

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in th...
WILLIAM FEATHER

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
WILLIAM FEATHER

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not...
WILLIAM FEATHER

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they di...
WILLIAM FEATHER

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the un...
WILLIAM FEATHER

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's pro...
WILLIAM FEATHER

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothin...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

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

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they di...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
WILLIAM FEATHER

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do e...
WILLIAM FEATHER

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
WILLIAM FEATHER

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

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

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

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

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
WILLIAM FEATHER

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today&...
WILLIAM FEATHER

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
WILLIAM FEATHER

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, an...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

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

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

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the prin...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the princi...
WILLIAM FEATHER

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the goo...
WILLIAM FEATHER

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
WILLIAM FEATHER

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
WILLIAM FEATHER

Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
WILLIAM FEATHER

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.
WILLIAM FEATHER

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell ...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

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

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

So show a little inspiration/ show a little spark/ show the world a little act when you show it your...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

Inability to pay decides for many of us perplexing questions that worry the well-to-do.
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

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

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they di...
WILLIAM FEATHER

The philosophy behind marketing is is based on the old observation that every man is really two men ...
WILLIAM FEATHER

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for ...
WILLIAM FEATHER

I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well
WILLIAM FEATHER

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

The only thrill worth while is the one that comes from making something out of yourself
WILLIAM FEATHER

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard.
WILLIAM FEATHER

Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact
WILLIAM FEATHER

. . . [but] next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is in having someone else do a first...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

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

Few of us get anything without working for it
WILLIAM FEATHER

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.
WILLIAM FEATHER

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
WILLIAM FEATHER

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancemen...
WILLIAM FEATHER

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
WILLIAM FEATHER

It's often a good idea to let the other fellow believe he is running things whether he is or not.
WILLIAM FEATHER

Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's goo...
WILLIAM FEATHER

We all find time to do what we really want to do
WILLIAM FEATHER

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.
WILLIAM FEATHER

No man is a failure who enjoys life
WILLIAM FEATHER

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the princi...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing. The way to get ahead is ...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

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

Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got
WILLIAM FEATHER

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not...
WILLIAM FEATHER

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
WILLIAM FEATHER

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two ...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

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

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting good...
WILLIAM FEATHER

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has...
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

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

Beware the person who won't be bothered with details.
WILLIAM FEATHER

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

It's not as bad as we feared. Not every single data packet has to be retained — yet.
CLIVE FEATHER

It includes provision for the retention of the date and time for 'log in' and 'log off' an Internet ...
CLIVE FEATHER

If you're on the registry and you get a (telemarketing) call, someone's up to no good.
JANE FEATHER

It's not as bad as we feared. Not every single data packet has to be retained yet.
CLIVE FEATHER

No mention is made of costs. The directive says 'Article 10 Costs. Deleted'.
CLIVE FEATHER

Things can happen despite our best effort. If an identity thief wants your identity bad enough, he's...
JANE FEATHER

As I speak now, a scam is being born.
JANE FEATHER

Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM

The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS

We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS

No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
WILLIAM OSLER

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES

Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.

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Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.

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