Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.Collection: Motivational
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.Collection: Business
Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.Collection: Art
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.Collection: Good
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.Collection: Learning
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.Collection: Truth
Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.Collection: Giving
Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.Collection: Real
Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.Collection: Successful
It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.Collection: Important
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.Collection: Science
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.Collection: Effort
I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.Collection: Peace
If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.Collection: College
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.Collection: Feelings
We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.Collection: Kindness
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.Collection: Plato
Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.Collection: Men