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,
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.
