Be generous and kind to all.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any man or order of men.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Gratitude is the way to happiness.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

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.

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . .It’s sort of what we have instead of God.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

The one hand trying to wash itself is a pitiful spectacle, but when one hand washes the other, power is increased, and it becomes a force to be reckoned with.

False leaders rarely engage succession planning for fear of no longer being seen as the leader.

The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’