 One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. |
| The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . |
| Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. |
| Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said. |
| Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. |
| If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. |
| Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. |
| People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. |
| Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners. |
| You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. |
| The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? |
| If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. |
| When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. |
| Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. |
| Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. |
| It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. |
| Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. |
| Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. |
| Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. |
| There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it. |
