A man convinced against his will is a man of the same opinion still
Teach me neither to proffer nor receive cheap praise. (King George V)
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and to see things from his angle as well as your own. (Henry Ford)
It is the individual, who is not interested in his fellow men, who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring. (Alfred Adler)
Actions seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together. By regulating the action, which is under more direct control, of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. (Dr William James of Harvard)
Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. (Shakespeare)
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Lincoln)
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop. (Chinese proverb)
To be interesting, be interested. (Mrs. Charles Northam Lee)
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about things he treasures most. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Man, proud man! Dressed in a little brief authority, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven as to make angels weep (Shakespeare)
be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so (Lord Chesterfield)
he who treads softly goes far (Chinese proverb)
If you want enemies, excel your friends but if you want friends, let your friends exel you (La Rochefoucauld)
A man usually has two reasons for doing a thing: one that sounds good and the real one. (J.P. Morgan)
I have never found that pay and pay alone would either bring together or hold good men. I think it was the game itself (Harvey Firestone - Firestone tires)
It is more damaging to say foolish things than to do foolish things (Cardinal de Retz)
It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than a bad reputation (Friedrich Nietzsche)
I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Achilles; fortune hath not one place to hit me (Sir thomas Browne, Religio Medici 1642)
Tis nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so (William Shakespeare)
The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another... Some of those situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others; but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardour which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence of of justice; or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice. (Adam Smith, The theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759)
Practical wisdom is the combination of moral will and moral skill. (Aristole)
Leadership is the ability to get people to do what they would not normally do, and to like it. (Harry Truman)
There is an inverse relationship between the exercise of power and the exercise of leadership (Bill Gore)
What space is to size, time is to value (Plato)
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and genteelness. Without those qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. (Charlie Chaplin)
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
(W.B. Yates)
Make things as simple as you can, but not simpler. (Einstein)
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (Einstein)
Don't paint eyebrows on the Mona Lisa (Jason Booth)
He who abandons what is for what should be is destine for ruins. (Machiavelli)
He who pursues what could be from what is will see victory or defeat but never timidity (J.J. Loh)
It is important to be well-coordinated as it is to be well-planned (J.J. Loh)
No written word,
No spoken plea,
Can teach our youth,
What they should be
Nor all the books
on all the shelves
Its what the teachers are themselves
(Unknown Author, quoted by John Wooden)
He who sacrifices freedom for security, deserves neither. (Ben Franklin)
We didn't push the limits, we just showed the limits were further than people realized. (JR)
He who seeks truth finds beauty
He who seeks beauty finds vanity
He who seeks order finds gratification
He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed
He who serves shall find self-expression
He who seeks self-expression finds arrogance
Arrogance is incompatible with nature
Moshe Safdie
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt
There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
RFK
What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know,
Its what we know for sure that just ain't so
Mark Twain
Dorothy Sayers
