We’re never as ridiculous by what we are as by what we pretend to be.
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The ultimate of ambition – to be happy at home.
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Bad habits are easy to acquire but hard live with.
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He who strikes first shows his ideas have run out.
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A fault confessed is half redressed. Denying a fault doubles it.
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Supreme joy comes from doing a kindness by stealth, and having it discovered by accident.
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Modesty is the surest bait when fishing for praise.
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People who influence us most are those who most believed in us – and vice versa.
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Courage is not the absence of fear; It’s the conquest of fear.
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If you want to be liked show more of your faults than of your virtues.
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The smart way to knock a chip off a man’s shoulder is to pat him on the back.
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We can pull, but not push, a string, a man, a child, a customer, a friend.
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Rudeness, yelling, anger, and swearing are a weak man’s imitation of strength.
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Others’ faults show up like bright headlights; our own as dull tail lights.
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Nothing hits harder nor sticks longer than a wise timely tip.
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The size of a man is the size if the thing that make him mad.
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Your best protection from your enemies is to make them your friends.
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With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
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To welcome a difficulty is to cut its size in half.
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A room full of pictures is room full of thoughts. They make us think.
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The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought.
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The purest education is condensed into the fewest words.
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You are a great man if you leave the world better than you found it.
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You can have anything you want ?if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Author: Barbara De Angelis
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.
Author: Napoleon Hill
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
Author: John Ruskin
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Author: John Adams
None will improve your lot if you yourself do not.
Author: Bertolt Brecht
When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.
Author: Bhagavad Gita
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through ?then follow through.
Author: Edward V. Rickenbacker
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing is best after all.
Author: Benjamin Spock
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
Author: John Ruskin
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
Author: William Hazlitt
There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Author: Elisabeth Guizot
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Author: Margaret Thatcher
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.
Author: Mike Ditka
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Author: Abraham H. Maslow
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