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Favorite Quotes

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead

"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." -- Elie Wiesel

"Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn from him." -- Emerson

"The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be." -- Socrates

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -- Aristotle

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but that our ability to do it has increased." -- Emerson

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." -- Shakespeare

"It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulty in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from such individuals that all human failures spring." -- Alfred Adler

"Treat everyone you meet today as the most important person you will meet today." -- Dale Carnegie

"I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is; treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be." -- Goethe

"Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be specific; the more specific the praise the more it will be appreciated and the less likely it will appear to be flattery." -- Dale Carnegie

"This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as I live it is my privilege -- my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I've got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." -- Bernhard Shaw

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-- T.S. Eliot

"Until you can say 'I am my master', you cannot say 'I am your servant'." -- Covey

"Ultimately, the leadership style one adopts springs from one's core ideas and feelings about the nature of man." -- Covey

"You cannot consistently perform in a manner that is inconsistent with the way you see yourself." -- John Maxwell

"As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation." -- Hans Selye

"Think of a dog; he almost jumps out of his skin he's so glad to see you." -- Dale Carnegie

"A smile says 'I like you. You make me happy. I'm glad to see you." -- Dale Carnegie

"Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours." -- Disraeli

"What you are shouts so loud in my ears that I cannot hear what you say" -- Emerson

"I have to live with myself, and so
I want to be fit for myself to know,
I want to be able, as days go by,
Always to look myself straight in the eye;
I don't want to stand, with the setting sun,
And hate myself for things I have done.
I don't want to keep on a closet shelf
A lot of secrets about myself,
And fool myself, as I come and go,
Into thinking that nobody else will know
The kind of man I really am;
I don't want to dress up myself in sham.
I want to go out with my head erect,
I want to deserve all men's respect;
But here in the struggle for fame and pelf
I want to be able to like myself.
I don't want to look at myself and know
That I'm bluster and bluff and empty show.
I can never hide myself from me;
I see what others may never see;
I know what others may never know,
I never can fool myself, and so,
Whatever happens, I want to be
Self-respecting and conscience free."
-- Edgar Guest

"Welcome disagreement; distrust your first instictive impression; control your temper; look for areas of agreement; thank the other person for his interest." -- Dale Carnegie

"Get people in the habit of saying 'yes, yes'. People want to be seen as consistent; therefore it is paramount to begin with positive statements." -- Brian Tracy

"Change your 'but's' to 'and's'." -- Dale Carnegie

"Assume a virtue, if you have it not." -- Shakespeare

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -- Helen Keller

"Criticism is something you can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." -- Aristotle

"The price of greatness is responsiblity." -- Winston Churchill

"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud; the pleasure of being above the rest." -- C.S. Lewis

"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon." -- Konrad Adenauer

"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not." -- William James

"You're more likely to act yourself into a feeling than feel yourself into action." -- Jerome Bruner