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I will speak ill of no man… and speak all the good I know of everybody.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When a man’s fight begins with himself, he is worth something.
Speaker: Robert BrowningPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it. But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others – yes, and a lot less dangerous.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
Speaker: John WanamakerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Speaker: Herbert SpencerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Education is the ability to meet life’s situations.
Speaker: John G. HibbenPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keeps faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can, with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good window does not call attention to itself. It merely lets in the light. A good speaker is like that. He is so disarmingly natural that his hearers never notice his manner of speaking: they are conscious only of his material.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there had never been anything just like it before, and never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put us all in the same mold. But, I say, don’t let that spark be lost; it’s your only real claim to importance.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you will come to me and say ‘let us sit down and take counsel together, and, if we differ from one another, understand why it is that we differ from one another, just what the points at issue are,’ we will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only had the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.
Speaker: Woodrow WilsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When the congregation falls asleep, there is only one thing to do; provide the usher with a sharp stick and have him prod the preacher.
Speaker: Henry Ward BeecherPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:15 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
'The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.’
If you would impress an audience, be impressed yourself. Your spirit, shining through your eyes, radiating through your voice, and proclaiming itself through your manner, will communicate itself to your audience.Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Get a student to say ‘no’ at the beginning, or a customer, child, husband, or wife, and it takes the wisdom and patience of angels to transform that bristling negative into an affirmative.
Speaker: Harry OverstreetPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The sincerity with which a man speaks imparts to his voice a color of truth no perjurer can feign.
Speaker: Alexander WoolcottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Think as wise men do but speak as the common people do.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
Speaker: Ludwig WittgensteinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As one enlarges his ability to get others to understand him, he opens up to that extent his opportunity for usefulness. Certainly in our society, where it is necessary for many for them even in the simplest matters to co-operate with each other, it is necessary first of all to understand each other. Language is the principal conveyor of understanding, and so we must learn to use it, not crudely but discriminatingly.
Speaker: Owen D. YoungPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Act in earnest, and you will become naturally earnest in all you do.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!