Advice is like snow. The softer it falls, the easier it’s absorbed, the deeper it sinks and the longer it lasts.
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To fish for praise sow the seeds: friendly words and kindly deeds.
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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. It’s child’s reaction to and adult situation.
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Little men, like little pots, quickly boil over. He who angers you conquers you. Keep calm and you control everybody.
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If you got rid of all your problems, you’d have a bigger one – boredom.
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We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
Author: Cicero
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Author: Euripides
They can because they think they can.
Author: Virgil
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Author: W.W. Ziege
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Author: Frank Loyd Wright
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Author: Christopher Morley
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.
Author: Herbert Bayard Swope
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Author: Shakespeare
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Author: Albert Einstein
To ask timidly is to invite refusal. Ask as though you expected to receive.
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No matter how low you feel, if you count your blessings, you’ll always show profit.
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We can’t choose our relatives, but we can choose our thoughts which influence us much more.
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To live to 100, have something to live for. Living for something is part of living long.
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Never judge a day by its weather. Sunshine is uplifting; rain, nourishing; wind, exhilarating, snow, cleansing; hail, stimulating. Any weather is better than none.
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Discipline is the hidden ingredient that turns nobodies into somebody.
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Boredom and monotony are sure ways of separating men from mere boys.
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To save yourself much disappointment, realize early in life that every job has some dreary details that can’t dodge. Manual work is not degrading. There’s nothing for frayed nerves like physical work. When worried us your brain less and your muscles more.
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The curse of extravagance kills more opportunities than taxes, sickness and hard time.
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Beware of small needless expenses. Small leaks sink big ships – and big men – and big business – and big nations.
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With wealth comes a reputation for wisdom, prudence, self-confidence, courage, greatness, and other unearned virtues.
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If we’re not rich, it’s our duty to make all the money we can without sacrificing the things more important than money, self respect, peace of mind, honor and the rights of others.
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All employers prefer savers. They are more steady, more honest, more reliable, less distracted.
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The friend, the teacher, the merchant and preacher treat you according to your bank account.
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A strong conviction that a thing can be done conditions the mind – impels it to think to find a way to do it.
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If you’re just ordinary, be thankful. God does all his big jobs through ordinary people who develop extraordinary determination – will power. The will is the man. Will makes men giants – and millionaires.
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America’s greatest banker: In my 43 years of banking, I never knew of anyone who saved money on large income who didn’t get the habit on small one.
Author: J. P. Morgan
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Author: Stephen Covey
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Author: Stephen Covey
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Author: Stephen Covey
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Author: Stephen Covey
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Author: Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
Author: Aristotle
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
Author: Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Author: Aristotle
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