To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
- Topic: Humility, Leadership
- Location: Lake Utah
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
It is frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?
Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.
