Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
|
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
|
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
|
I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty.
|
He took the paper, and I watched, And saw him peep within; At the first line he read, his face Was all upon the grin.
|
Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye, I watched that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can.
|
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
|
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
|
People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children but their little ...
|
The fourth; he broke into a roar; The fifth; his waistband split; The sixth; he burst five buttons off, And tumbled in a fit.
|
Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.
|
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.)
|
Just because history is written by the victor does not necessarily mean that it is false. Therefore, revisionist history should always be suspect. Better still, all history should be suspect.
|
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600,000. No, I replied, I just spent 600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience
|
Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.
|
Would you like me to give you a formula for...success It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.
|
Be nice to everyone on your way to the top because you pass them all on the way down.
|
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
|
People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.
|
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
|
The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.
|
You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.
|
Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism.
|
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
|