Top 40 William Feather Quotes

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

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

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.

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

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Few of us get anything without working for it.

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

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.

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.

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

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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