M. Jackson Quotes

Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again?

The sun will rise tomorrow, even if you get knocked out in 30 seconds.

Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.

Swallowing angry words before you say them is better than having to eat them afterwards.

When declaring your rights, don't forget your responsibilities.

Don't confuse wealth with success.

Once a month, go to lunch with someone who knows more about your business than you do.

You can't hide broccoli in your glass of milk.

Drive inexpensive cars, but own the best house you can afford.

Overpay good baby-sitters.

Never be ashamed of your patriotism.

Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?

Fight fairly. Give generously. Laugh loudly. Love deeply.

Plant more flowers than you pick

No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

Remember that winners do what losers don't want to do.

Volunteer. Sometimes the jobs no one wants conceal big opportunities.

Every so often, push your luck.

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

May good fortune be your constant companion.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Turn enemies into friends by doing something nice for them.

Use your past successes as a trampoline, not an easy chair.

When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.

When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.

Don't be called out on strikes. Go down swinging.

Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last.

On the king's gate the moss grew gray;The king came not. They called him deadAnd made his eldest son one daySlave in his father's stead.

Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.

The new is older than the old; And newest friend is oldest friend in this: That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss One thing we sought.

The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold is in the pocket.

Who longest wait of all surely wins.

Great books conserve time.

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.

As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.

The better the book the more room for the reader.

Genius is intuition on fire.

My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.

Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.

You've had to struggle, you've had to fight To keep understanding and compassion in sight You could be laughing at me, you've got the right But you go on smiling so clear and so bright