(112 quotes found)
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.”
“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.”
Sam Walton
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”
“Men are what their mothers made them”
“The years teach much which the days never know”
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something”