Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own needs. Be honest and severe in your self-appraisal. Learn the art of learning, and you are well on the way to achievement. True greatness is reflective, not assertive.Collection: Art
People around you are quick to read your attitude of thought toward them. Inner thoughts and feelings are communicated in ways other than by the spoken word.Collection: Attitude
This is the time to speak the word of appreciation.Collection: Appreciation
A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.Collection: Regret
Thought rules mankind.Collection: Mankind
Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.Collection: Clever
To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.Collection: Problem
Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are a daily record of your efforts, trials, pleasures, discouragements, and achievements. Day by day your thoughts and acts are being inscribed in your book of life. Hour by hour, the record is being made that must stand for all time. Once the word 'finish' must be written, let it then be said of your book that it is a record of noble purpose, generous service, and work well-done.Collection: Motivational
The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.Collection: Inspirational
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.Collection: Effort
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.Collection: Life
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed.Collection: Heart
The quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your personal character.Collection: Character
Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.Collection: Attitude
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.Collection: Happiness
Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.Collection: Gratitude
Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.Collection: House
There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.Collection: Inspirational
Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.Collection: Use
A woman's heart is much like the moon, always changing but always has a man in it.Collection: Women
. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing.Collection: Courage
Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!Collection: Mind
Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.Collection: Motivational
Better untaught than ill-taught.Collection: Education