A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Do not explain overmuch.
Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother.
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into some one else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Living inspired is born in the awareness that this is it! We have but one chance at life, and the wonderful gift we are given each morning is the choice of how we are going to live that moment, that day.
Reading has been the fuel of my motivation, it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
Strength of character may be acquired at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. There the affections are trained. There the gentle life reaches us, the true heaven life.
You don’t have to be sick to get better.
Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.
Fortune Cookie
Goals are discovered, not made.
Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals, and I’ll give you a stock clerk.
I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.
The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.