Laurence J. Peter Inspirational Quotations

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought