Quotes
- Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
- There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignor...
- It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with cr...
- Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but ...
- It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism wit...
- Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find e...
- The shortest answer is the doing the thing.
- Education is not received. It is achieved.
- None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, bu...
- We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
- A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupte...
- Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.
- Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always ...
- Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
- Age withers only the outside.
- You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come...
- Where ambition ends happiness begins.
- The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
- The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes h...
- A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he ...
- People who know the least always argue the most.
- If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
- What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added t...
- Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
- The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe...
- He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance
- It is better to live richly than to die rich.
- Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one o...
- Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great...
- A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and d...
- We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about liv...
- The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate rea...
- Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the r...
- A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn aft...
- Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit th...
- Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal grow...
- Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appre...
- Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference betwee...
- Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.
- There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.
- Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - sele...
- One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the...
- Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience co...
- Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handl...
- Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
- If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice...
- Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has ...
- Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual...
- Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
- Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
- The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is c...
- Friendship is love with understanding.
- So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him ...
- Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
- Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exerci...
- An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
- Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
- To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot ...
- If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
- We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
- People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
- It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating...
- Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite o...
- The guilty catch themselves.
- Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
- Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they...
- If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
- Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
- Hate pollutes the mind.
- Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one ...
- If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would ...
- Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
- To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
- A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And who...
- "Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me...
- It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
- It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling bet...
- It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ...
- Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, r...
- Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
- Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a s...
- Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
- "What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one ...
- Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
- Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of ...
- Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts a...
- Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nouri...
- Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, P...
- A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
- When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what ...
- One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures an...
- No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the ey...
- Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
- The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself wi...
- Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not t...
- Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most ...
- The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.
- A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.
- It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times t...
- The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This...
- After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumsta...
- Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to ...
- No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
- Life is too short to be taken seriously.
- Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we ...
- The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head aff...
- The most important thing a father can do for his children is to lov...
- If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself ...
- A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be...
- Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an e...
- "Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.
- Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
- So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
- Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
- Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.
- If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does a...
- Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it w...
- One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to disti...
- A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be...
- A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to real...
- Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world.
- The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.
- Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
- Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get mo...
- Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the ...
- Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright...
- Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they ju...
- Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever...
- A patient man is one who can put up with himself.
- The best way to end a war is not to begin it.
- Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievem...
- Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.
- If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.
- Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a...
- No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A ...
- He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.
- Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.
- Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done y...
- Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the qu...
- An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
- If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was whi...
- There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a rel...
- Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special o...
- Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and cons...
- Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at...
- Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has t...
- Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estim...
- Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge th...
- Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be ...
- Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in di...
- To save time is to lengthen life.
- Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.
- The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."
- A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
- Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their we...
- The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that...
- If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not eve...
- Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
- You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
- When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at thei...
- One thing you can give and still keep is your word.
- The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.
- Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful...
- Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemet...
- The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment...
- It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded d...
- Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up ...
- Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.
- If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hu...
- If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of f...
- Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
- Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbe...
- The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of su...
- A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and c...
- Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste fir...
- Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up e...
- Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things rema...
- The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its th...
- You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tom...
- The price is what you pay; the value is what you receive.
- Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we...
- Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power a...
- Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.
- Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of ...
- Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hes...
- Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second ...
- No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A ...
- A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
- The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.
- You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doin...
- One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers tha...
- A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
- Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.
- When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without...
- Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.