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Hotelier Quotes
- “Hoteliers should aim to design their hotels so that they’re interesting enough for guests to stay for a long time.
- “I think one size fits all, but then you give them a pillow and they fit even better.”
- “People would end up in the trash if we followed your rules.”
- “The hotel is not an appliance, it’s a living creature with needs and desires.”
- “A hotel is a way of life, not just a place to sleep.”
- “You can do a lot of things alone as a hotelier but you can’t perform an autopsy on yourself.”
- “I don’t want guests to feel like they are in prison.”
- “Never go to bed angry! I do not mean you should never get angry but when you go to bed angry, you will forget about it in the morning and come up with some new plan.”
- “A good hotelier is brave enough to ensure that his guests, employees and himself are having fun while they are staying at his hotel.”
- “A good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “The manager of a hotel is like a gamekeeper.”
- “If the electricity goes off in the middle of the night, most people will sleep on the bed and forget about it in the morning.”
- “The kind of life you lead is reflected in your hotel. You can live in a really nice hotel for a short period of time, but if you don’t have a good life, it’s not going to last long.”
- “If I know that my staff is coming from out of town I will keep your room ready the night before so you have no trouble getting into it.”
- “Don’t be afraid of sharing your opinions. They might not be popular at this moment but they will be useful in the future”
- “Hoteliers are like fishermen. They prefer to serve others but they sometimes end up in the fishbowl themselves.”
- “Hoteliers are in no position to pretend that they don’t have anything on their mind.”
- “I was a hotelier and my wife was an accountant. I could tell her anything, but she did not know the following fact: money can be taken out of your pocket only by other people. It’s very hard working for yourself.”
- “Managing a hotel is like trying to be a jack of all trades, master of none, but always willing to learn something new.”
- “When guests are staying at your hotel you are not allowed to control your life; they are controlling it for you.”
- “There’s a difference between being efficient and being productive. Efficiency is doing things right; productivity is doing the right things.”
- “If you have a good wife, treat her well.”
- “I can read people’s minds. I have two ears and one mouth. I can hear what they say, but no one knows that I can read them.”
- “When you do a good job, be sure to show your gratitude.”
- “No matter how small the thing is, if it is done well, people will remember you for a long time.”
- “There’s no challenge in life that is not worth it.”
Hotel Room Quotes
- “A hotel is not a place for people to hide. It’s a place for them to show off.”
- “To be successful as a hotelier, you have to be convinced that the world is not always better than when you wake up in the morning.”
- “There’s no conflict in business that lasts forever.”
- “What happens at home stays at home.”
- “I have seen years of my life disappear during the night while I was asleep.”
- “If the electricity goes off in the middle of the night, most people will sleep on the bed and forget about it in the morning.”
- “A good hotel should feel like a gift that falls down from heaven.”
- “No customer is ever too much money to be dealt with honestly.”
- “There’s no point in being beautiful or smart if you do not know how to make others smile.”
- “People would end up in the trash if we followed your rules.”
- “It’s a good idea to have a happy environment in the hotel.”
- “And yet, you cannot understand why I’m so good at dealing with hotel guests, it is because I love them.”
- “What happens at home stays at home.”
- “Your guests should know they’re dealing with a human being.”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “I don’t consider it an insult, but I do consider it a compliment when people call me a hotelier. “
- “To be successful as a hotelier, you have to be convinced that the world is not always better than when you wake up in the morning.”
- “There’s no point in being beautiful or smart if you do not know how to make others smile.”
- “I was a hotelier and my wife was an accountant. I could tell her anything, but she did not know the following fact: money can be taken out of your pocket only by other people.”
- “There’s always something happening at a big hotel; if nothing is happening, you are doing something wrong.”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “I have seen years of my life disappear during the night while I was asleep.”
- “It’s a good idea to have a happy environment in the hotel.
- “It’s a good idea to have a happy environment in the hotel.”
- “The guests want to feel safe, comfortable and cared for. That should be your job.”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “A good hotel is one made on foresight, not afterthought.”
- “I am sure that somebody will invest in it, but I will try not to do so myself.”
- “It’s a good idea to have a happy environment in the hotel.”
- “What happens at home stays at home.”
- “The guests want to feel safe, comfortable and cared for. That should be your job.”
- “I’ve made many mistakes, and I’m proud of every single one of them.”
- “There’s no point in being beautiful or smart if you do not know how to make others smile.”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “If you know what you’re doing, you can do it without any trouble, and then there isn’t any need to call in experts.”
- “I don’t consider it an insult, but I do consider it a compliment when people call me a hotelier. “
- “And yet, you cannot understand why I’m so good at dealing with hotel guests, it is because I love them.”
- “I’ve never believed much in the ‘class struggle’.”
- “Before you come out with your own ideas, try to listen to what other people have to say.”
- “For me, to be a good hotelier is to offer a place where people feel at home.”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
Luxury Hotel Quotes
- “Luxury Hotel is not about being luxurious or having a large swimming pool. It’s about feeling good and feeling like you’re home.”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “It’s so important to create an environment that makes guests feel safe, comfortable, and cared for . That should be your job.”
- “In the best hotels, there is no front desk or concierge; just people who love what they do and guests who love theirs. In the best hotels, people talk to each other and help each other.”
- “Upgrading a guest in hopes that they will spend more is a sign of insecurity. I want people to know that we are confident in our product.”
- “There are no stars in my hotel; I don’t give out uniforms and I don’t believe in gold-plated keys.”
- “I like everything about the housekeeping staff, from the way they look to how they care for guests.”
- “I don’t think my hotels are perfect, but I will make them better. I don’t believe in the notion of ‘Grand Opening.’ I open a hotel and it will never be perfect, it will just become better over time.”
- “I feel like I can make every single piece of the service experience better when I get there. Something to think about is simplifying things, making the services more efficient. In a hotel, the guest is always right and the staff is always wrong.”
- “I have so many ideas that I want to do but every time I make a decision I will find myself going back and forth.”
- “It’s so important to create an environment that makes guests feel safe, comfortable, and cared for. That should be your job.”
- “In the best hotels, there is no front desk or concierge; just people who love what they do and guests who love theirs. In the best hotels, people talk to each other and help each other.”
- “I like everything about the housekeeping staff, from the way they look to how they care for guests.”
- “Sometimes I wonder why I’m so good at dealing with hotel guests, it is because I love them.”
- “You have to always be willing to learn something new.”
- “The goal of the company is to develop a business that will last for generations.”
- “We opened the hotel in mid-1956 without any publicity. Our guests came because they were attracted by our belief in quality service.”
- “To get people talking about your hotel, you have to do something that no one else does.”
- “What happens at home stays at home.”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “And yet, you cannot understand why I’m so good at dealing with hotel guests, it is because I love them.”
- “In my world, people are treated the same regardless of whether they’re a guest or one of the staff.”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “I’ve never believed much in the ‘class struggle’.”
- “I don’t believe the guests are robots so I’m not about to treat them that way.”
- “It’s a good idea to have a happy environment in the hotel.”
- “If there’s an issue, there’s no point in hiding it. If you’re going to solve it, you have to solve it right then and there.”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “I believe in the importance of a great story.”
- “You have to always be willing to learn something new.”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “In my world, people are treated the same regardless of whether they’re a guest or one of the staff.”
- “And yet, you cannot understand why I’m so good at dealing with hotel guests, it is because I love them.”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “In my world, people are treated the same regardless of whether they’re a guest or one of the staff.”
- “The staff is always right even if they are wrong.”
- “And yet, you cannot understand why I’m so good at dealing with hotel guests, it is because I love them.”
- “If there’s an issue, there’s no point in hiding it. If you’re going to solve it, you have to solve it right then and there.”
- “It’s so important to create an environment that makes guests feel safe, comfortable, and cared for. That should be your job.”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “I’ve made many mistakes, and I’m proud of every single one of them.”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “I believe in the importance of a great story.”
- “The staff is always right even if they are wrong.”
- “Why have I been able to open so many hotels? Because I know that there’s always something happening at a big hotel, if nothing is happening, you are doing something wrong”
- “The staff is always right even if they are wrong.”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “I believe in the importance of a great story.”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “I believe in the importance of a great story.”
- “You have to always be willing to learn something new”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “If there’s an issue, there’s no point in hiding it. If you’re going to solve it, you have to solve it right then and there”
- “You have to always be willing to learn something new”
- “Why has the hotel been successful? Because I had an idea that I’m still working on today”
- “There will be change but not a lot of it.”
- “You have to always be willing to learn something new”
- “A really good hotelier should consider his guests to be royalty.”
- “I believe in the importance of a great story.”
- “I’m driven by my emotions and it’s because of them that I’m successful”
- “Change can mean upsetting things.”
- “People don’t know how I work but they want me to do what I do”
Hospitality Quotes for Hotels
- “A good hotel is a dream with a doorman.” -Pablo Neruda
- “A hotel is not an inn; it’s a house for staying in.” -H.L. Mencken
- “Hotels are cotton candy–they look good, they taste good, and the next day you have nothing but this huge cavity where your food should be, and you have to fill it up with something else just to get by the day. I hate that.” -John Grisham
- “A hotel is a house where people go to be lonely among their friends.”
- -Marcel Proust
- “A hotel is not a home, and home is not a hotel.” -Anonymous
- “A room in the house is not a home but being welcomed by them who share it already makes it hospitality.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “A man’s home may be his castle, but his only hotel. His home is where his heart is, but his only hotel is where his bags are.” – Anonymous
- “A pier or an airport, it does not make much difference. Both signify departure. Sitting there on the bus, I know I am on the last leg of my journey. The town receding in the distance behind me becomes an illusion of permanence which no amount of longing can bring back.”
- “A statement by a visitor to the front desk of a very small hotel in the Alps, ‘I don’t like the look of the water in this shower,’ produced a reply from one of its owners, ‘You will learn to like it when you press it.'”
- “A toast is not to be relinquished as lightly as an old shoe.” -Charles Lamb
- “A true hotelier is not interested in making money from his guests; he’s interested in making them happy, and it shows. It shows in the service, it shows in the appearance of his hotel, and it shows in his attitude to his guests.”
- “A true hotelier must look on every person who enters his premises as a potential guest for life.” -Paul Bocuse
- “A well-run hotel is a place where you are neither smelled nor pawed because the people who work there do not give offense to either and offer a sense of comfort that is actually unobtainable at home.”
- “A wise guest remembers that a hotel is a hotel and not his home.” -John Gielgud
- “A world of perfect hotels would be one in which the guest was never bewildered or bored, never away from home, and never aware that he was being ‘sold’ things.” -Stewart Alsop
- “After a hard day’s work, the last thing I want to think about is my bed.” -Moss Hart
- “As a bird in its nest, so are they.” -Samuel Johnson
- “As for me, I know not how I shall live this winter, whether I shall have enough to live on or whether my old head will be buried in the churchyard of my ancestors before it grows cold. All the same, I am of an age which requires to do something more than keeping my bed warm; and what is most comforting to me is that you have no thought so near your heart or so precious as a good bed. I am going, therefore, to the inn.” -Geoffrey Chaucer
- “A friend is a man who knows all about you and still likes you.” -Groucho Marx
- “”If there’s a hotel around, I’ll sleep in it.”” -Ernest Hemingway
- “If you can stay at an inn with more than two stories standing on each side of the main street, you haven’t got enough people traveling through.””
- -Shakspeare
- “If you wish a garden of roses and violets, with which to perfume the air, rejoice in your own private hotel.” -Plutarch
- “In a house of flowers, sometimes a perfumed buttonhole is worth nothing at all.” -Mme. de la Sablière
- “It is not for us to see what lies beyond the outer walls of the hotel.” -Thomas Hardy
- “It is not the place but the people in it, that makes a home.” -Bertha M. Clark
- “It’s all very well to say, ‘Oh yes, I have stayed at the Ritz,’ but if you haven’t made a reservation then you can forget it.””
- “Keep in mind that unless your hotel is full, your room probably has been occupied by someone else today or last night.”
- “Life is a series of little deaths. The trick is to die happy.”
- “Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.” -Oliver Goldsmith
- “My principle objection to hotels is that they are places where one pays other people to sleep in one’s own bed.” -Christopher Morley
- “Never, never trust an inn!” -Miguel de Cervantes
- “One cannot be always a tourist in one’s own home.””
- “One should be born again every day.” -Heraclitus
- “Ours is a house of many guests. We are them all.””
- “Open your windows and your hearth, and let yourself be lighted by the glory of the morning.” -Mary Stuart
- “Our cure for boredom is not to avoid it-that is, not to stay in bed-but to face it with interest.”
- “Our duty is to improve our circumstances and, at the same time, to improve ourselves. The two go hand in hand.”
- “Physical exercise should be the machinery by which we train ourselves for grace and gaiety.”
- “Rest is not idleness, and all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
- “Save me from my friends; I can protect myself from my enemies.” -Voltaire
- “Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.” -Louis Sacher
- “Some travel for distraction, some for sorrow, some for pain-but travel is itself a journey.”
- “Sometimes we think it is the length of life that matters, but it is the depth.””
- “The action may be in the kitchen, but the heart of the home is in the parlor.” -Jessamyn West
- “The best books are those that have been written by people who are still alive.” -Charles E. Merrill
- “there is a fine line between being busy and being efficient.””
- “There is no gain without pain, no honor without risk, and no treasure that is not tarnished.” -Robert Benchley
- “There is no limit to our capacity for getting bored and staying bored.” -Dale Carnegie
- “There’s a kitchen in my soul. I can make a gourmet meal for my wife and my dog.” -Rodney Dangerfield
- “There’s no need to change your habits to accommodate new information.”
- “Thinking back, I do not recall that I have ever been frightened. Perhaps I was too busy.”-William F Buckley Jr.
- “Though forgiveness will always be difficult, it is surely a better option than revenge.””
Thanks for Hospitality Quotes
- “We are what we are because of the hospitality that people have shown us.” -Aristotle
- “I love when hosts cook for me. It’s like having a present waiting to be opened.” -Salman Rushdie
- “It is better to be eaten by cannibals than to be a hypocrite.”-Jonathan Swift
- “We learn more from what happens, we don’t learn as much from what does not happen, as much as we think we do. We learn more from what we don’t do, than what we do.”-Tony Benn
- “The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”-Socrates
- “Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.”-Abraham Lincoln
- “Thanks for hospitality quotes.”-John Green
- “I am a traveler not because I love to be different places, but rather because I have not yet found anywhere that is like home.” -John Green
- “Travels make one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
- “Home life’s pretty dull, if you’d rather be dead.” – William Gaddis
- “No man is worth his salt who has not travelled.” – Samuel Johnson
- “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”-Emily Dickinson
- “Don’t make it a habit, because that way you’ll never know whether you have any.” – Kris Kristofferson
- “He is a good man who has learned how to let go of the life he was given, so as to get a life worth living. That man is a good citizen. He sets an example. He contributes to the well-being of society by his hard work, his decency, his civility.” – William Saroyan
- “Gravity is a minor inconvenience.”-Dorothy Parker
- “What’s right with the world?” – Bill Watterson
- “Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce.” – Nawal El Saadawi
- “The world is a book of poetry, written by fools-and some passages are so exquisitely written that it makes you cry.”-William Shakespeare
- “The fellow who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.” – Bob Dylan
- “You never really stop learning, and that is what keeps you young.”-Actor Ryan Reynolds
- “No one cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.” -Audrey Hepburn
- “I would rather travel than love, because in traveling, the truth is not included.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
- “You can’t do it by halves, you have to do it altogether or not at all.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I want a boyfriend who’s just as excited about our relationship as I am. I don’t want a boyfriend who’s into me for my body, because I’m not.” -Katy Perry
- “Travel and transport us from our daily lives and bring us to places we never knew existed.” -Tiffany Jackson
- “Travel makes you humble. Success never robs you of your humility.” – Florence King – from The Diary of a Young Girl
- “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing after they try everything else.
Welcome Quotes for Hotel Guests
- “Laughter is a tranquilizer without side effects.” – Victor Borge
- “No matter how dull these places are, the people who make them up are always interesting.”- Bill Bryson
- “Everything is better in Belgium!” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “The best way to find out if you can do something is to try it.” – Budd Schulberg (American screenwriter)
- I like work: It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” – Jerome K. Jerome (Journalist, humorist)
- “Coffee stays liquid longer than most marriage’s.” – Peter McWilliams
- “Wyoming – where men are men. Or at least, these are the men they send to other states to become men again.” – Robert J. Ringer author of Winning Through Intimidation
- “I am a Marvel, and I am a DC… I am neither the best of them, nor the worst of them; I am somewhere in between.” – Umberto Eco
- “My brain and I have come to a mutual understanding: If I do not cripple it with alcohol or other harmful chemicals, it will leave me alone and do what I want.” – Dave Barry (American humorist)
- “I live in a place where there are more deer than cars. Often, you’ll be driving down the road and a deer will walk out in front of you. “Holy crap! What the hell are you doing out here in the middle of the road?” Then you’ll realize it’s a deer. And then your car will start to smell funny.” – Dave Barry (American humorist)
- “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. Only this time, instead of words on paper, it’s colors on canvas or on wood or whatever.”- George Braque (French painter)
- “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter)
- “I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.” – Poul Anderson (American author)
- “Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.” – Jean de La Fontaine (French poet)
- “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson (British entrepreneur)
- “Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.” – Anthony Burgess (British writer)
- “Never give in – never, never, never, never…in nothing great or small, large or petty.” – Sir Winston Churchill (British statesman)
- “If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?” – Lily Tomlin
- “Everything that appears impossible to you is just a question of determination.” – Roy Masters (American TV advertisement executive)
- “The one quality I most prize in a man…is the ability to look with an open mind upon circumstances outside his immediate experience or comprehension.” – Theodore Roosevelt (26th President of the United States)
- “Love is like the measles; everybody has them at some time in their lives. It’s best to catch it early, so you live through it stronger. – Lily Tomlin
- “All the roads that lead to the future are winding and strewn with detours.” – Pico Iyer (American writer)
- “When you look back at your childhood, you can’t help but think that it was like a dream. But when you look ahead, you see things in your mind’s eye as vividly as if they were happening right now.” – Andrew Wyeth (American artist)
- “I don’t like being at the front of any line, even a good one.” – Dave Barry (American humorist)
- “Those who say that they have never made mistakes mean precisely that they have never tried anything new.” – P. L. Travers (English author)
- “If you live long enough, you’ll see a lot of strange things.” – John Steinbeck (American novelist)
- “When in Rome do as the Romans do. When in Rome do as the Romans do.” – Mark Twain (American author)
- “Most men dream of making a lot of money, but not all men can wake up and do it.” – Richard Branson (British entrepreneur)
- “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn (American businessman)
- “Saying what we want to say is more important than saying what we should say.” – Unknown
- “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” – Winston Churchill
- “Don’t let a day go by without enjoying yourself…don’t take life too seriously…and don’t waste time thinking about things you can’t change.” – Henry M. Samueli (American businessman)
- “The most important thing is to not stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein (German-born physicist)
- “Compassion is the first step to happiness.” – Dalai Lama (Tibetan Buddhist Monk)
- “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain (American author)
- “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (German philosopher)
- “It is sometimes better not to know what’s going on in your own head.” – Unknown
- “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato (Greek philosopher)
- “Despite what you’ve heard, there is no such thing as life without problems.” – Zig Ziglar (American author)
- “If you don’t know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.” – Yogi Berra (American baseball player and coach)
- “Sometimes you have to look back to go forward.” – Unknown
- “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” – Victor Kiam (American businessman)
- “It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” – Carl Sagan (American astronomer)
- “If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. ” – Albert Einstein (German-born physicist)
- “You must have a very strong reason for doing an exercise, otherwise there is no point in doing it.” – Miyamoto Musashi (Japanese swordsman)
- “There are consequences to everything you do in life; so do everything with a purpose.” – Abraham Lincoln (American President)
- “Just because you’re not ready for something doesn’t mean you’re supposed to avoid it.” – Mike Tyson (American boxer)
- “Honesty is the only policy.” – Abraham Lincoln (American President)
- “The kind of courage needed to perform great deeds is not a special grace, or bravery; it is more akin to a fierce determination and an unfaltering grit.” – Maya Angelou (American author)
- “Be sure that you have enough self-esteem to be able to handle your own emotions without seeking approval from others.” – Dr. Joyce Brothers (American psychologist)
- “The irony is that the power to make changes in your life is always within you.” – Robin Sharma (Canadian author)
- “Don’t be afraid of a little failure. You can’t be afraid of it, it’s going to happen anyway, treat it as a friend.” – Seth Godin (American author)
- “You’ll never succeed unless you believe in yourself.” – William James (American philosopher)
- “Bad things don’t happen; they’re caused.” – Dr. Phil (American psychologist)
- “Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; it is an act of will.” – Dale Carnegie (American author)
- “You need to focus on what you want and work really hard to achieve it.” – Oprah Winfrey (American actress)
- “Real success is waking up every day and going to bed tired, but knowing that you made the right decisions.” – Bill Gates (American businessman and philanthropist)
- “No one will work harder than you, and if you aren’t willing to do that, then don’t complain about the results.” – Andre Agassi (American tennis player)
- “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn (American entrepreneur)
- “You may not control all of the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. – Vince Lombardi (American football coach)
- “If life gives you lemons, make apple juice.” – Steve Harvey (American author)
- “It’s not how much the world is changing. It’s how much you change that matters.” – Dalai Lama (Tibetan Buddhist Monk)
- “I am many things to many people, but in my own eyes I am a success, if only because of what I did not do.” – Florence Nightingale
- “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T. S. Eliot (British-born American poet)
- “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” – Oscar Wilde (Irish short story writer and poet)
- “I’m not afraid of failing; I’m afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.” – Anonymous
- “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the second best time is now. ” – Chinese Proverb
- “It always seems impossible until it is done.” – Nelson Mandela (South African politician)
- “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan (American basketball player)
- “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.” – Oscar Levant (American composer and pianist)
- “The road to success is a lot of failures along the way. – Anonymous
- “It’s not what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Unknown
- “I like to think of myself as a sort of walking experiment, but not as a failure. As an experimental cause, not as a result.” – Albert Einstein (German-born physicist)
- “Every great dream begins with a dreamer…A lot of people who don’t know what to do with their lives sit around thinking about it. But the really great people do something.” – Earl Nightingale (American radio personality)
- “I’m not a failure.
- I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison (American inventor)
- “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” – Malcolm Forbes (British-born American businessman)
- “Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.” – T. S. Eliot (British-born American poet)
- “The greatest conqueror is the one who has done most with the least.” – Otto von Bismark (German statesman)
- “When you’re the right person in the right place at the right time, success will find you.” – Robert Kiyosaki (American author and businessman)
- “When someone turns a negative into a positive, that’s called a miracle.” – Marilyn Monroe (American actress)
- “You are in control of your feelings; not your circumstances.” – E.M. Gray (American author)
- “The effective executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” – Elbert Hubbard (American author)
- “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying.” – Woody Allen (American comedian)
- “If you’re not prepared for failure, you’ll never pull off success. – Unknown
- “It’s only when you succeed that you realise how difficult it is to succeed.” – Unknown
- “If you want to keep your health, your wealth and your happiness, grow old slowly.” – Chinese Proverb
- “To do great things, we must be great people.” – Helen Keller (American author)
- “On the other hand,we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then becomes not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle (Greek philosopher)
- “A person who won’t do something that he knows he should do is a person who can’t do it at all.” – Katherine Hepburn (American actress)
- “My emotions are like a pair of giant scissors…they cut anything they touch.” – Richard Bach (American author and poet)
- “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try and cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain (American author)
- “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Mark Twain (American author)
- “I am a firm believer that if you want to be an engineer, there should be a pick axe in the kit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (American philosopher)
- “My problem is I can’t get started…I’m so depressed I don’t even have the energy to feel sorry for myself.” – Woody Allen (American comedian)
- “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'” – Sydney Harris (American columnist)
- “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi (Indian spiritual leader)
- “Approach life as an adventure. We are not here to have a safe routine.” – Robert Schuller (American clergyman)
- “Don’t play for safety – it’s the most dangerous thing in the world.
Hospitality Quotes
- “A good host makes the guest feel at home.”
- “To be a good host, you must first be a good guest.”
- “True hospitality is the art of making someone who has no home feel at home.”
- “Good hospitality is not found in waiting on people hand and foot, it is found in giving them skills that they might need so that they can stand on their own feet.”
- “The art of hospitality is to make your guests feel that they are welcome.”
- “Where knowledge goes, hospitality follows.”
- “In good company, the shortest distance between two people is a smile.”
- “A smile is the shortest distance between two people.”
- “Someone who smiles when he wants to frown, has a happy heart and has found someone worth meeting.”
- “If you want to be joyful, learn how to serve somebody better than yourself or smile more than you cry. That will make someone’s day.”
- “A heart at peace is a good host.”
- “When you meet someone new, you can build up your confidence by giving them a friendly gesture such as a smile or perhaps the gift of your time to talk with them for a short while.”
- “There is nothing more important than making someone else feel at home when they are not used to being one.”
- “The first duty of hospitality is delight in companionship.”
- “What you do to yourself is the way you will feel towards yourself. In fact, that’s one of the reasons why a good host gives their guests refreshments – so that they don’t have to worry about feeling so bad themselves that day. Their job is to make sure they have a good time.”
- “If you are going to prepare a meal for someone, you want them to be hungry because if you give someone something already eaten it’s like saying ‘I’m not interested in what I’m offering.'”
- “The best thing one can do for another person is to listen to them attentively and to care about them.”
- “Just as a good host makes sure that their guest is comfortable and well-fed, so too does the kinder, gentler person make sure of their own comfort and well being.”
- “If you are a guest in someone’s house and they ask you not to speak until they ask for your opinions or your help, then listen. When they ask for it, speak. It’s only polite.”
- “Take the time to enjoy your company. Be their guest, listen to them, compliment them rather than criticize them and remember that they will feel the same way about you in return.”
- “If you feel like someone needs to be taken care of, take care of them.”
- “You don’t find happiness by staying where a place is but by going to places where people are happy.”
- “What we think, we become. What we feel, we attract. What we do, matters.”
- “Who is wise? The one who learns from every person.”
- “When it comes to being a good host and guest, it’s better to be the former because that way you get to make a friend and they will want to come back.”
- “It’s always better to know more about what’s going on around you than what you don’t know.”
- “It’s not what you have, but what you do with what you have that matters.”
- “An informed mind is a golden thing.”
- “If you plant garlic, don’t let the hippies bite you!”
- “Flashlights are like people – they are only as good as how they are treated”
- “A good person is who believes in humanity and does their best to make other people happy.”
- “…a person who is interesting, is interested.”
- “If you eat it, don’t chase it!”
- “Those who know how to be kind and compassionate are great people – the best kind of people.”
- “…you teach people how to treat you.”
- “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”
- “A good friend will listen to you while you talk and then ask questions that make sense of what you’ve already said – and then they’ll listen some more .”
- “Good friends are like stars – you don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there!”
- “A good friend will be someone who is honest with you even when it hurts. They are the ones who will tell you what is wrong and what needs to be fixed.”
- “It’s better to be a good person than a bad person.”
- “To understand someone, you must hear them in their time of silence.”
- “If you want to be happy, be happy for others.”
- “If you don’t have a mission, what’s the point of being alive? If you’re not working towards something, then what are you living for?”
- “You don’t need enemies – they are inconvenient.”
- “When we do not know how to handle the present moment we often get stuck in an action – looping these loops and having no idea that we’ve stalled out.”
- “There is no shame in not knowing. Remember: Even if you had all the information, you would still be standing here powerless.”
- “I always tell people that there are two things that can make a person happy:Knowing the truth and not being afraid of it.”
- “You know how to ask questions but do you know how to listen?”
- “Sharing is caring, and listening is caring too”
- “It’s better to share than to possess.”
- “If you are selfish, eventually you will be poor. If you are generous, you will be rich.”
- “The point is not to become rich and famous; it’s about using your talents to make the world a better place.”
- “Relationships don’t have to be complicated. Sometimes all it takes is respecting each other’s boundaries.”
- “I believe that one of the greatest gifts you can give anyone is the gift of listening – especially when they don’t have anything to say.”
- “A good friend knows your story and loves you anyway.”
- “A good friend will always have your back – even if you get a little crazy from time to time.”
- “The main thing that matters in this world is love because without love, we’re lost.”
- “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.”
- “I’ve learned that even though it’s not perfect, it’s also okay for things to be okay the way they are right now. Sometimes you have to accept that things just don’t go the way you want them to.”
- “It’s important to listen with your eyes, too.”
- “You must learn how to be alone so that you can know how it feels like to not need anyone and also learn how it feels like when someone truly loves you.”
- “If somebody makes you angry, get away from them and count to ten.”
