| "I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher |
| "Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant." »Glenda Jackson |
| "If you can't ignore an insult, top it if you can't top it, laugh it off and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved." »J. Russel Lynes |
| "There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing." »Roger Caras |
| "In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)" »George Will |
| "You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself." »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
| "Be nice to everyone on your way to the top because you pass them all on the way down." »Fred Hufnagel, Sr. |
| "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." »John Wooden |
| "There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view." »Harry Millner |
| "Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars." »Bernard Baruch |
| "To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top ." »Unknown |
| "Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority." »William Arthur Ward |
| "Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." »Dag Hammarskjld |
| "People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom." »Peter Ustinov |
| "I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence." »Doug McLeod |
| "The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split." »Jerry Coleman |
| "Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up's." »Peter J. Davies |
| "The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive." »Charles Galloway |
| "It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top." »Robert M. Pirsig |
| "If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on top of them." »Theodore Ledyard Cuyler |
| "The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top." »Joyce |
| "By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top." »Saskya Pandita |
| "Richard It's called reading-top to bottom-left to right-group words together into sentences-take tylenol for any headaches-midol for any cramps." »Tommy Boy |
| "There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago." »Julius Robert Oppenheimer |
| "The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79....." »Douglas Noel Adams |
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