James Cook Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.

The struggle is the architect of the soul.

Better to have something to say than to have to say something.

A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

Seeds that are sown in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

The decline and fall of civilization are barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Everybody lives an epic.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

There is no help from without, only from within.

Self-interest feeds more people than self-sacrifice.

A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.

To succeed in business, but the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

There are alternate explanations for everything.

At any given age it is only a few extremists who are right.

The soul is that part of you in harmony with God.

Beware the person who is on a hot streak.

People rarely use advice.

Government regulators are another name for police.

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.

Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.

It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.

Employers know the nature of people best.

Investors believe in the best possible outcome.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

Inequality promotes progress.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.

The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.

Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.

Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own.

Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.

Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.

It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.

A salesman sees a commission.

Governments institutionalize something for nothing.

The government endangers us with our own money.

Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

Almost everything government does is worse than useless.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

Taxes are a penalty on progress.

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far eviler than it is necessary.

The more welfare, the more crime.

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.

Faith must be worked at.

The government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

The more successful an organization becomes, the more difficult it is to deal with.