Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
- Topic: Time, Wisdom
- Location: Haleakala National Park, Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall be given a square deal.
To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
Follow your desire as long as you live and do not perform more than ordered; do not lessen the time following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
Now is the accepted time.
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
