Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, “Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.”
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.
So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.
The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.
