Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Topic: Action, Communication, Leadership
- Location: Aruba
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.
If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
The perils of overwork are slight compared to the dangers of inactivity.
It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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%.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.
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.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success, but for cultivating the success of the next generation.
