Inspirational Quotes By Milton Berle

Milton Berle
1908 - 2002
American Comedian

Mendel "Milton Berle" Berlinger (July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an Emmy-winning American comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948-55), he was the first major star of television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr. Television to millions during TV's golden age.

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Famous quotations by Milton Berle:

A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.
Milton Berle

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
~Milton Berle

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
~Milton Berle

Laughter is an instant vacation.
~Milton Berle

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
~Milton Berle

It opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
~Milton Berle

My doctor recently told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
~Milton Berle

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
~Milton Berle

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
~Milton Berle

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes!
~Milton Berle

I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.
~Milton Berle

It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now!
~Milton Berle

Inspirational Quotes By Jack Benny

Jack Benny
1894 -1974
American Comedy Entertainer

Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky February 14, 1894 - December 26, 1974) was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film.

Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th Century, Benny was known for his comic timing and his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated "Well!" His radio and television programs, tremendously popular in the 1940s and '50s, were a foundational influence on the situation comedy.

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Famous quotations by Jack Benny

No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old.
~Jack Benny


Gags die, humor doesn't.
~Jack Benny

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
~Jack Benny

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
~Jack Benny

Modesty is my best quality.
~Jack Benny

Inspirational Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher
1813 - 1887
American Clergyman

Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was a prominent, Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century.

An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most famous American trials of the 19th century.

Inspirational, famous quotations by Henry Ward Beecher

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
~Henry Ward Beecher

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
~Henry Ward Beecher

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
~Henry Ward Beecher

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
~Henry Ward Beecher

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
~Henry Ward Beecher

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
~Henry Ward Beecher

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
~Henry Ward Beecher

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
~Henry Ward Beecher

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
~Henry Ward Beecher

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
~Henry Ward Beecher

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
~Henry Ward Beecher

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
~Henry Ward Beecher

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
~Henry Ward Beecher

The unthankful heart - discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
~Henry Ward Beecher

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
~Henry Ward Beecher

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
~Henry Ward Beecher

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
~Henry Ward Beecher

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".
~Henry Ward Beecher

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track, - but one inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
~Henry Ward Beecher

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Adversity, if for no, other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. Men see clearer at such time. Storms purify the atmosphere.
~Henry Ward Beecher

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
~Henry Ward Beecher

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
~Henry Ward Beecher

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
~Henry Ward Beecher

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
~Henry Ward Beecher

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
~Henry Ward Beecher

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
~Henry Ward Beecher

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
~Henry Ward Beecher

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Henry Ward Beecher

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long, - it is exceedingly short.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Inspirational Quotes By Bernard M. Baruch

Bernard M. Baruch
1870 - 1965
Businessman, Politician

Bernard Mannes Baruch (August 18, 1870–June 20, 1965) was a Jewish-American financier, stock market speculator, statesman, and presidential advisor. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters.

A collection of famous inspirational quotations by Bernard Baruch:

To me old age is 15 years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Bernard M. Baruch

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
Bernard M. Baruch

Never follow the crowd.
Bernard M. Baruch

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard M. Baruch

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
Bernard M. Baruch

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.
Bernard M. Baruch

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
Bernard M. Baruch

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Bernard M. Baruch

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
Bernard M. Baruch

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Bernard M. Baruch

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Bernard M. Baruch

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
Bernard M. Baruch

Inspirational Quotes By Richard Bach

Richard Bach
Born 1936
American writer

Richard David Bach (June 23, 1936, Oak Park, Illinois) is an American writer. He is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions: The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah and others. His books espouse his philosophy that our apparent physical limits and mortality are merely appearance. He claims to be a direct descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is noted for his love of flying and for his books related to air flight and flying in a metaphorical context. He has pursued flying as a hobby since the age of 17.

Be inspired by these quotes and sayings by the famous author, Richard Bach. Inspirational quotes containing food for thought for you to enjoy.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
~Richard Bach

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
~Richard Bach

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.
~Richard Bach

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
~Richard Bach

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
~Richard Bach

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
~Richard Bach

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
~Richard Bach

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
~Richard Bach (in our Best Love Sayings collection)

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality.
~Richard Bach

In order to win, you must expect to win.
~Richard Bach

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
~Richard Bach

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
~Richard Bach

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
~Richard Bach

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
~Richard Bach

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
~Richard Bach

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
~Richard Bach

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
~Richard Bach

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
~Richard Bach

Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
~Richard Bach

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
~Richard Bach

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.”
~Richard Bach

Real love stories never have endings.
~Richard Bach

Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.
~Richard Bach

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
~Richard Bach

Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person.
~Richard Bach

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. 'Nothing' is the worst thing that can happen to us!
~Richard Bach