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
Shortchange 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 advertises what we are.
