Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.
Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.
Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else.
Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.
Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.
SELF-ESTEEM controls PERFORMANCE/REALITY which stimulate SELF-TALK which reinforces SELF-ESTEEM. This cycle can work positively or negatively and is greatly influenced by the self-talk (I knew I wasn't good at -X vs. next time I'll practice and do better at -X).
Reverence is one of the signs of strength, irreverence one of the surest indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at sacred things. The fine loyalties of life must be reverenced or they will be fore sworn in the day of trial.
Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.
Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.
Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.
Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.
Prejudice is a great timesaver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get facts.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Pros are people who do jobs well even when they don't feel like it.
Quality will be prized as a precious possession.
Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.
Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.
Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.
Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.
Professionalism: It's NOT the job you DO, It's HOW you DO the job.
Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.
Produce great pumpkins, the pies will follow later.
Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.
People should know what you stand for. They should also know what you won't stand for.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.
Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts... for support rather than illumination.
Nordstrom's Rules for Employees: Rule # 1: Use your good judgment in all situations There are no additional rules
No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.
The mouth of a cannon is safer that the mouth of a woman scorned.
A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait for tax time.
Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.
A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.
Some people develop eye strain looking for trouble
Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs
Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute.
The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.
Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?
Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.
A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.
An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.
Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.
A sale is not something you pursue, it's what happens to you while you are immersed in serving your customer.
The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.
A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.
A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.
A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out
Attitude Adjuster: When you smile at someone, nine times out of 10 the other person will smile back and you've made two people's days brighter and better.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
A winning smile makes winners of us all.
A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. What do you mean? responded her mother. Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.
You're not what you think you are; you're not what others think you are; you're what you think others think you are!
You never know how many apples there are in a seed.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.
A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.
A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.
A smile on the face is a sign that the heart is at home.
A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
A bar of iron costs $5, made into horseshoes its worth is $12, made into needles its worth is $3500, made into balance springs for watches, its worth is $300, 000. Your own value is determined also by what you are able to make of yourself.
A baby sitter is someone who watches your TV set While your kids cry themselves to sleep.
About the only thing that comes without effort is old age..
The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake.
A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.
A close relative is one you see occasionally between family funerals.
Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
A civilized society that can no longer feel outrage, can no longer be civilized.
A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
It's a good thing that we don't get all the government we pay for.
It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.
I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.
It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.
Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.
It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?
It's only during an eclipse that the Man in the Moon has a place in the sun.
It's getting so that children have to be educated to realize that ''Damn'' and ''Taxes: are two separate words.
Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.
Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.
The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight -- unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors -- I shall help give him the key.
Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.
Everyone is a self-made person, but only the successful admit it.
The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement.
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.
The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches.