QUOTES & AFFIRMATIONS
ON BRAIN POWER:
· Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
· The beginning of wisdom is silence. The second step is to listen.
· If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
· Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
· Been there, done that, forgot most of it.
· The man who thinks he knows everything always irritates those of us who do.
· Experience is a teacher who never tells you in advance what your next lesson is going to be.
· Optimism is the belief than even when the worst is worst it won't be so bad.
· Learn from the mistakes of others, you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
· Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
· I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself.
· Talk is cheap. Practice what you preach. If you can't do it why should anyone else?
· Originality and one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
· Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
· I am always ready to learn although I do not always like to be taught.
· Small people imitate, great people originate.
ON CHILDREN:
· The typical boy would love to go to the moon but hates to go to the store for his mom.
· Any boy can be a basketball player, as long as he grows up, up, up.
· About all the modern girl knows about a needle is that you have to change it on a record player.
· Heredity is something you believe in if you have a very bright child.
· At dinner time parents sit down to eat with their children while their children sit down to continue eating.
· In the good old days, they also used to speak about the good old days.
· Children often become what I encourage them to be. They almost never become what I nag them to be.
· The role of a woman is not to breed and feed children but to educate them.
ON FEAR:
· Courage is fear that has said its prayer.
· Your enemies may really harm you in your own mind more than anywhere else.
· There are situations that must simply be lived through - survival calls for the ability to sustain tension without fright or flight.
· True courage is like a kite - a contrary wind raises it higher.
· There are ways of meeting difficulties - you alter difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
· True peace is in the heart of men.
ON JOBS:
· The chief ability of an executive should be the ability to recognize ability.
· The test of efficiency is the length of time it takes you to find out when you're wrong.
· A 'Jack of all trades' shows a good mans versatility.
ON PEOPLE:
· No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
· Gossips keep letting the chat out of the bag.
· Nothing improves people like loving them.
· If you would wish another to keep your secret, just keep it yourself.
· Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
· To lose a friend is the greatest loss of all.
· It's usually the talented who are lucky.
· Growing old is a habit which busy people have no time to learn.
· Faith is knowing which way to walk in the dark.
· To stay youthful forever, one must remain useful.
· Life is an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others.
· To give... and forgive... is a good way to live.
· Politeness costs nothing, and gains everything.
· True democracy begins with me.
· He is happy who makes others happy.
· The act of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
· We make a living by what we get, but make a life by what we give.
· Rumour writes faster than truth can erase.
· There's no greater nuisance to busy people than the 'man' who doesn't know how to waste time alone.
· Integrity is what you practice when no one else is watching.
· Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good firm push.
· Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.
· The greatest glory of a freeborn people is to transmit that freedom to their children.
· Beauty that doesn't make a woman vain is very beautiful.
· A true friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
· Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
· The sales tax was devised to prevent the penny from becoming obsolete.
· Travel is broadening, especially is you stop at all the recommended eating places.
· People say that in order for a man to become a great poet he must be either very much in love, or else very miserable.
· Caring that is conditional, is not caring.
· Let noble thoughts come to us from every side.
· Please don't explain me to me - can't you tell I hurt inside?
· Please talk to me, not at me, or about me.
· If you want respect from anybody, young or old, respect them first.
· I can't change anyone but myself. But I can change the way I react to what others are doing, saying and feeling.
· Life is not a problem to be solved.
· When I want someone to be what they can't be, or do what they can't do, they feel angry and frustrated - but not so much as I feel.
· Yesterday is a cancelled cheque. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is ready cash - use it.
· A day without laughter is wasted.
· It is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice.
· When I am angry at myself I criticize others.
· I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
ON RELIGION:
· There is only one religion - and that is the one that exists between you and God - everything else is man made.
· Any 'formalized' religion [one that is given a name] is simply one that is imposed upon us by man.
ON RESTRICTIONS:
· I'm allowed to make choices only within those limitations that are imposed upon me by my circumstances.
· If you let your children do anything they please, eventually you won't be pleased by anything they do.
· When you're truly liberated, you don't mind being treated like a woman.
· Liberty is thought of as the life of the soul.
· Most of us get what we deserve but only those who are successful will admit it.
· Anyone can tell right from wrong but telling opportunity from temptation is much tougher.
· Your drinking doesn't bother me. Why should my non-drinking bother you?
by Victoria & Friends
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