Dealing with People.
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
-Lord Chesterfield-
To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another's grief,
is to alleviate or dispel your own.
-Thomas Edwards-
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
-Denis Diderot-
Arguing with a fool proves there are two.
-Doris M. Smith-
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves,
nor half of the evil they say of others.
-J. Petit Senn-
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
-Publius Syrus-
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of personsthat one can make himself agreeable to.
-Thomas Carlyle-
The more you say, the less people remember.
-François Fénelon-
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
-William Thackeray-
The soul of conversation is sympathy.
-Thomas Campbell-
If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.
-Epictetus-
The less people speak of their greatness,the more we think of it.
-Lord Bacon-
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence;
which costs us nothing.
-John Tillotson-
It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them.
-J. Petit Senn-
Word Of Wisdom
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening,
the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
-Solomon Ibn Gabriol-
Years teach us more than books.
-Berthold Auerbach-
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,which are brief and pithy.
-William Penn-
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
-Thomas Huxley-
A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,a fool by his own.
-Latin Proverb-
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge-
No man was ever wise by chance.
-Seneca-
The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom,in the heart.
-William Hazlitt-
Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
-John Tillotson-
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
-Catherine the Great-
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
-Charles Dickens-
One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
-Alexander Chase-
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
-Homer-
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
-Edward Young-
The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
-Confucius-
Words od Motivation
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
-St. Clement of Alexandra-
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery,
guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate.
The world is all gates, all opportunities.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-Thornton Wilder-
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
-Arthur C. Clarke-
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, it is not an act but a habit.
-Aristotle-
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
-Voltaire-
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
-Benjamin Disraeli-
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
-Unknown-
The best way out is always through.
-Robert Frost-
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
-William B. Sprague-
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-Samuel Johnson-
Fortune favors the brave.
-Publius Terence-
He who hesitates is lost.
-Unknown-
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius-
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-Albert Einstein-
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.Willing is not enough; we must do.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-
We are still masters of our fate.We are still captains of our souls.
-Winston Churchill-
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
For hope is but the dreamof those that wake.
-Matthew Prior-
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
-Lucretius-
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
-Mary Shelley-
