Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right;
Dreaming about a thing when you should be doing it is wrong!
What you live with, you learn;
What you learn, you practice;
What you practice, you become;
What you become, has consequences!
Yard by yard, it's always hard,
but, inch by inch, it's a cinch!
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being. - Johann Wolfing von Goethe
The deepest job of belonging comes as one learns to cooperate, contribute, and help!
We work together to bring out the best in each of us and then we apply our skills to help others!
Let us never forget that we learn in moments of enjoyment!
Real communication is impossible without listening!
Good thoughts not shared are worth squat!
People will do more of what they are praised for!
What's important is not what happens when you're there, it's what happens when you are NOT there!
If you can't measure, you can't manage!
Attainable goals are those you can reach but that make you stretch!
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it not only is a present evil, but that you have increased a habit!
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us!
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test!
Facts not frankly faced have a habit of stabbing us in the back!
It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged!
The best part of knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins!
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions!
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best to rearrange their prejudices once in a while!
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices!
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely!
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things, it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable!
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you!
A good name, like good will, is gotten by many actions and lost by one!
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too!
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do!
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting!
The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example!
The man who follows the crowd will never be followed by a crowd!
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise!
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people!
He who considers too much will perform little!
Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; its opposite, the unthought part of what you say!
You will never stub you toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere!
A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do!
What we see depends mainly on what we look for!
The dead are all living all around us, watching with eager anticipation how we will handle the opportunities they left in our hands when they died!
Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business!
Unless the job means more than the pay, it will never pay more!
Save time thinking you can do the other fellow's job better than he can...
put it into doing your job better!
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves; we encourage each other in mediocrity, I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself!
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results. It produces no results. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men!
It's easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities!
Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you are too cowardly to let you know.
Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him and all the others.
Failures are divided into two classes - those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our destiny.
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm, and team play.
Think wrongly, if you please; but in all cases think for yourself.
Credit to the fullest the good qualities to be found in others, ever thought they may far outshine your own.
The sum of behavior is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.
Half of the harm that is done in this work is due to people who want to feel important...they do not mean to do harm...they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequence come from little things, a chance word, a tap on the shoulder, or a penny dropped on a newsstand, I am tempted to think...there are no little things.
Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is what are you busy about.
Pressure is on us by the nature of the job. Performance releases pressure.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
Don't judge a man by his opinion of himself.
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.
Have patience, all things are difficult before they become easy.
It's the men behind who "make" the men ahead.
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
We can believe almost anything if it be necessary to protect our pride.
No right way to do a wrong thing.
No pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
The only people with no problems are dead.
Try Not - do or do not, there is no try.
People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think about themselves less.
Contented people are not the ones who create improvements.
People should regard every job they do as preparation for a bigger one.
Feelings are everywhere...be gentle.
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.
A good example is a great gift to give others.
Don't find fault with what you don't understand.
The man who can anger you, conquers you.
No man has the right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
The two things opened most by mistake are the pocketbook and the mouth.
If you don't enjoy what you have, how could you be happier with more?
Apology is often a good way to have the last work.
Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.
Suppress a moment's anger...prevent a day of sorrow.
A good example is the best sermon.
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