The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
Leadership is no longer about your position. It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.
There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.
Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
What's with all the running, anyway? I mean, I realize the importance of stamina and all that, but shouldn't I be moving on to something with a little hitting? They're still killing me in group practice.” "Maybe you should hit harder.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.
A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.