-- Herbert Kaufman
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of
persistence is the habit of victory.
-- Bil Keane
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's
called the present.
-- John Keats
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
-- Helen Keller
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do
something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does
not exist in nature.
-- Donald Kendall
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
-- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world
- or to make it the last.
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do
for your country.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
Washington [D.C.] is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- Marilyn Moats Kennedy
It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length
and be right too late.
-- Robert F. Kennedy
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or
strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each
other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current
that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Some see things that are, and ask why. i dream of things that never
were and ask why not.
-- Charles Kettering
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance
there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
-- Charles Kettering
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his
failures simply as practice shots.
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the
solution.
People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old
ones.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
-- John Maynard Keynes
In the long run we are all dead.
-- Martin L. King, Jr.
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an
almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some
people more than having to think.
If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
-- Linden Kohtz
It is not the people that lift you up that matter but the people who keep you up
-- Cameron Koo.
Judgement and fear makes strangers out of people who should be friends.
True happiness is about being able to define a moment - not by continually looking into
the past or even longingly at the future, but by shining brightly in the now.
No statue has ever been erected for the critic.
The truth is a wonderful thing, not a burden one must carry.
The most dangerous predator known to man, is woman.
-- Jonathan Kozol
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
-- J. Krishnamurti
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a
problem.
-- Irving Kristol
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing
can take its place.
-- Ray Kroc
You're only as good as the people you hire.
-- Alex Kroll
Getting ideas is like shaving: if you don't do it every day, you're a bum.
--Nikita Krushchev
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no
rivers.