Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.
Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
The way to get ahead is to start now.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
I have won every argument I ever had with myself.
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
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