If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
- Topic: Leadership, Life, Self
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
No garden is without its weeds.
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.
I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.
