“People
seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“It’s
surprising how many persons go through life without even recognizing that
their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings
toward themselves.
If you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable
with others.”
Sydney J. Harris
“Those
people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.”
William Hazlitt
“The
trick is what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable or we
make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Carlos Castoneda
“It
is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can
sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There
is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and
that’s your own self.”
Aldous Huxley
“This
above all: to thine own self be true.”
William Shakespeare
“Patience
is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“When
you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone
persuade you to say it.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr
“The
truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The
hard part is doing it.”
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
“There
is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people
up.”
John Andrew Holmes
“Ability
is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you
do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz
“He
has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Whatever
you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season
and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for
a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.”
P. T. Barnum
“When
one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully
upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell