If your children look up to you, you've made a success
of life's biggest job.
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older,
they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.
Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on
the bright side of things.
Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone.
Many people seem to think that opportunity means a
chance to get money without earning it.
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
Make service your first priority, not success & success will surely follow.
Before a man can wake up & find himself famous he has to
wake up and find himself.
Neurotics chase after people and jobs they don't really want, just to prove that they are like everybody else - which is the
last thing they really want.
Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.
Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world.
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins
to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.
A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions
and may be lost by one.
One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to
distinguish our need from our greed.
Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains,
nature fills it with conceit.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what
does an empty desk mean?
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
"Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape
the results of your thoughts.
The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.
A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.
The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.
Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.
Luck always seems to be against the man needing it most.
Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
The most important thing a father can do for his children
is to love their mother.
If marriage is your object, You'd better start loving your subject.
To be free of destructive stress, don't sweat the small stuff & by realizing that all stuff is small.
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.
After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.
Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life.
This is too long a period not to have fun.
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
than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.
Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't.
Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most
fruitful in good & evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers
not their minds.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate
what they already have.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
The guilty catch themselves.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in
spite of every effort to teach them good manners.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely
an exercise of the tongue.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
So few people think when we find one who really does,
we call him a genius.
Friendship is love with understanding.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong
as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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, you are a fool.
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and doctors. I don't believe it. They are simply the people we are most afraid of. And with the most reason.
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their children were last night.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.
The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy.
There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.
Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to "get by."
Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.
Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.
Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.
Short change your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct.
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
Many things are worse than defeat, and compromise with evil is one of them.
On his examination paper a boy wrote, "A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor's help.
It is better to live richly than to die rich.
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
People who know the least always argue the most.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
Age withers only the outside.
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the
supply always exceeds the demand.
Where we go and what we do advertise what we are.
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.
It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.
Education is not received. It is achieved.
The shortest answer is the doing the thing.
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones,
much as we do about both.
If you don't like your own character there may be a new
one ready-made and waiting for you.
The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
The test of any man’s character is how he takes praise.
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.
Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
A conscience is just like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
The bigger a man’s head gets, the easier it becomes to fill his shoes.
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear you are near contentment.
Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.
The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.
Courage is not without the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
You know how you hat to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.
One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people think of him.
Don’t mind criticism. If it’s untrue, disregard it, if unfair, keep from irritation, if it’s ignorant, smile, if it’s justified, learn from it.
There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.
It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly & for the same reason.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you will reach your destiny.
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.
Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very
silent place if no birds sang except for the best.
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
It’s hard to be nostalgic when you can’t remember anything.
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we
shall never cease to be amused.
Courage atrophies from lack of use.
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
If everyone's thinking alike, somebody isn’t thinking at all.
God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind it’s looking like I will never die.
Don’t be afraid to take one large step because you can’t cross
river in two small leaps.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first,
the lesson afterward.
