"Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise."

Secker, W. | Credit | 0 bookmarks

"Remember that credit is money."

Franklin, Benjamin | Credit | 3 bookmarks

"Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another."

Cicero, Marcus T. | Credit | 0 bookmarks

"Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions."

Bierce, Ambrose | Credit | 0 bookmarks

"There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit."

Woodruff, Robert | Credit | 0 bookmarks

"Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."

Walpole, Horace | Credit | 0 bookmarks

"Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!"

Pope, Alexander | Credit | 0 bookmarks

"In God we trust; all others must pay cash."

Unknown, Source | Credit | 0 bookmarks

"The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery."

Sinclair, Upton | Credit | 2 bookmarks

"The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any."

Switzer, Maurice | Credit | 0 bookmarks

"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match."

Dickens, Charles | Credit | 1 bookmarks

"Buying on trust is the way to pay double."

Unknown, Source | Credit | 0 bookmarks

"O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor."

Byron, Lord | Credit | 0 bookmarks

"Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars."

Twain, Mark | Credit | 0 bookmarks

"A pig bought on credit is forever grunting."

Proverb, Spanish | Credit | 1 bookmarks

"Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired."

Scott, Sir Walter | Credit | 0 bookmarks

"That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Poetry and Poets | 0 bookmarks

"There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Age and Aging | 3 bookmarks

"I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Nations | 0 bookmarks

"He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Medicine | 0 bookmarks

"He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Christians and Christianity | 7 bookmarks

"You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Parliament | 0 bookmarks

"A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Religion | 0 bookmarks

"Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Gossip | 0 bookmarks

"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Enthusiasm | 2 bookmarks

"How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!"

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Dance and Dancing | 2 bookmarks

"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; --poetry = the best words in the best order."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Poetry and Poets | 1 bookmarks

"Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Right and Rightness | 0 bookmarks

"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Proverbs | 1 bookmarks

"Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Song and Singing | 0 bookmarks

"Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, Where is it?"

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Atheism | 0 bookmarks

"Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Kindness | 1 bookmarks

"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Sympathy | 0 bookmarks

"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Aphorisms and Epigrams | 0 bookmarks

"How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Celibacy | 0 bookmarks

"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Architecture | 0 bookmarks

"People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen."

Iacocca, Lee | Action | 2 bookmarks

"You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought."

Holmes, Marjorie | Action | 3 bookmarks

"Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late."

Unknown, Source | Action | 2 bookmarks

"Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing."

Letterman, David | Action | 1 bookmarks

"Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away."

Thalheimer, Richard | Action | 3 bookmarks

"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

Stevenson, Robert Louis | Action | 2 bookmarks

"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise."

Howells, William Dean | Action | 1 bookmarks

"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."

Smith, Sydney | Action | 5 bookmarks

"Leap, and the net will appear."

Cameron, Julie | Action | 5 bookmarks

"I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs."

Mencken, H. L. | Action | 2 bookmarks

"Action is the real measure of intelligence."

Hill, Napoleon | Action | 2 bookmarks

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

Unknown, Source | Action | 3 bookmarks

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."

Tibolt, Frank | Action | 9 bookmarks

"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."

Gibbon, Edward | Action | 3 bookmarks

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."

Bushnell, Nolan | Action | 7 bookmarks

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

Canfield, Jack | Action | 4 bookmarks

"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

Stevenson, Robert Louis | Action | 3 bookmarks

"You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree."

Morgan, John Pierpont | Action | 1 bookmarks

"Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating."

Dyer, Wayne | Action | 2 bookmarks

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell | Action | 3 bookmarks