Repetition
- Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
-- George Eliot
- Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
-- Juvenal
- There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Men get opinions as boys learn to spell,
By reiteration chiefly.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Reputation
- Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
-- George Washington
- Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
-- Lord Jeffrey
- A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
-- Alexandre de Talleyrand-Périgord
- A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
-- Joseph Hall
- What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
-- Ed Howe
- The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
- Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
-- Elbert Hubbard
- Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
-- Mencius
Resignation
- Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
-- Alexandre Vinet
- It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations.
-- Kin Hubbard
- Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles.
-- Anne Sophie Swetchine
- We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
-- Walter S. Landor
- A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
-- Jack Herbert
- Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.
-- Thomas Fuller
- What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau
- For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Resolution
- Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier
- The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
-- Thomas Carlyle
- It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
-- Marcel Proust
- Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
-- Oscar Wilde
- Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Resolve and thou art free.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
-- Philip Sidney
Respect
- One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
-- Ed Howe
- There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age--I missed it coming and going.
-- J. B. Priestly
- I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.
-- Herbert Henry Lehman
- I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
-- Joseph de Maistre
- Men are respectable only as they respect.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Responsibility
- The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.
-- Walter S. Robertson
- Responsibility is the price of greatness.
-- Winston Churchill
- Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
-- William Ellery Channing
- Responsibility educates.
-- Wendell Phillips
- You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
-- Henry Ford II
- The Buck Stops Here
-- Harry S. Truman
- Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.
-- Frank Crane
Rest
- Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?
-- Kin Hubbard
- Absence of occupation is not rest;
- A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
-- William Cowper
- He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
-- Voltaire
- I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
-- Thomas Mann
- Rest: the sweet sauce of labor.
-- Plutarch
- Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
-- Mark Twain
- Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
-- Francis Quarles
Result
- Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
-- Thomas A. Edison
- 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.
-- W. Alton Jones
- It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.
-- Don Marquis
- They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
-- Hosea: 8:7
Retirement
- A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.
-- Anonymous
- The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
-- Anonymous
- The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
-- Samuel Johnson
- Love prefers twilight to daylight.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Reverie
- There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
-- James Russell Lowell
- Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
-- John Locke
- Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
-- William Ellery Channing
- Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
-- Charles Simmons
- To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
-- Antoine Rivarol
- In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
-- William Wordsworth
Revolution
- Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.
-- Aristotle
- Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- I have not yet begun to fight.
-- John Paul Jones
- Many of the world's troubles are not due just to Russia or communism. They would be with us in any event because we live in an era of revolution--the revolution of rising expectations.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
- We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
-- Charles F. Kettering
- Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.
-- Abraham Lincoln
- Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
-- Edmund Burke
- Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
-- Ambrose Bierce
- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
-- Lenin, Vladimir
- Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Reward
- The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.
-- Wu Ming Fu
- The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
-- William Congreve
- It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
-- William Penn
- No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
-- Calvin Coolidge
- He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
-- Confucius
- Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.
-- J. T. Towbridge
- He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
-- William Penn
- No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
-- Booker T. Washington
- Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.
-- E. V. Cooke
- Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward.
-- Kreeshna
Ridicule
- Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.
-- Charles Simmons
- Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
-- Horace
- Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches!
-- Thomas Fuller
- Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- Mockery is the weapon of those who have no other.
-- Hubert Pierlot
- Ridicule is the language of the devil.
-- Thomas Carlyle
Rights
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain
- No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
-- Gerald W. Johnson
- The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
-- Sir William Blackstone
- From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
-- Carl Schurz
- No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
-- Charles Simmons
- It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Many a person seems to think it isn't enough for the government to guarantee him the pursuit of happiness. He insists it also run interference for him.
-- Anonymous
- I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
Riot
- The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson
- The Commission believes there is a grave danger that some communities may resort to the indiscriminate and excessive use of force. The harmful effects of overreaction are incalculable.
-- Commission on Civil Disorder, 1968
- If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end of our dreams.
-- Archie Lee Moore
- No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise.
-- Alan Biole
Risk
- It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
--Theodore Roosevelt
- The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.
--George E. Woodberry
- I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.
--Duncan Hines
- The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
--Jawaharlal Nehru
- Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
--George E. Woodberry
- A man sits as many risks as he runs.
--Henry David Thoreau
- Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
--Tobias G. Smollett
- Everything is sweetened by risk.
--Alexander Smith
- Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
--William Lloyd George
- Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
--Metastasio
- The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
--Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1856
- Live dangerously and you live right.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, 1806
- Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
--George Bernard Shaw
- Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base.
-- Fredrick Wilcox
- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
--Beverly Sills
Rivalry
- Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
-- John Ruskin
- It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
-- Joseph Addison
- Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
-- George Ade
- Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
-- Elbert Hubbard
- In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee
- If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent.
-- Edward N. Hurley
- Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
-- Henry Ford II
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