The three great American ...

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
 Lin Yutang

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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I have done my best: that is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
 Lin Yutang
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
 Lin Yutang
I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.
 Lin Yutang
Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.
 Lin Yutang
All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.
 Lin Yutang