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Farrell, Joseph
Don't keep jingling in the course of your conversation any intellectual money you may have.
Feather, William (1889-1981), writer
Many people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
Firestone, Harvey S.
(1868-1938), industrialist
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
I think it's a pretty good rule not to tell what a thing is about until it is finished. If you do you always seem to lose some of it. It never quite belongs to you so much again.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
Foch, Marshal Ferdinand
Every time you have a task before you, examine it carefully, take exact measure of what is expected of you. Then make your plan and, in order to execute it properly, create for yourself a method, never improvise.
Forbes, B.C.
Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in the world. The popular notion is that a youth's progress depends upon how he acts during his working hours. It doesn't. It depends far more upon how he utilizes his leisure . . . If he spends it in harmless idleness, he is likely to be kept on the payroll, but that will be about all. If he diligently utilizes his own time. . . . to fit himself for more responsible duties, then the greater responsibilities—and greater rewards—are almost certain to come to him.
Forbes, Malcom (1919-1990), publisher
For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, and dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep.
It's hard to put your finger on just what it was about Dwight Eisenhower that gave him his unique place in the hearts of his countrymen. War hero? Not really. He never personally led a charge up any San Juan Hills (or) Destroyed any enemy fleets at Manila Bay. A spectacular, dramatic, colorful President and Presidency? No one would so describe the Eisenhower years....No, it wasn't any of the obvious Pedestal things. It wasn't his Greatness with a capital G, rather it was his goodness without the capital G; the compelling decency of the man; the unconscious yet visible guidance by his conscience.
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Contrary to the cliché, genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.
Ford
Whether you think you can or think you can't—you are right.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
You can do anything with enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hope rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, it is the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters. They have fortitude. They have staying qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
There is joy in work . . . . There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson
There are two techniques that every man and woman needs to live life. One is the technique of volition, of trying hard, putting your back into it and doing your best. That's output . . . The other is the philosophy of intake, of spiritual hospitality, of the receptivity of the soul to the oversoul, of the open door that lets the highest in. That's intake. One is like the branches of a tree, spreading out. The other is like roots, digging in. Multitudes of people in our modern world are using only the first technique. They are trying hard, and then someday, inevitably, like everybody else, they run into an experience that they can't handle simply by trying hard—a great grief, for example. Try hard? You need intake, too. You need sustenance, you need invigoration from beyond yourself.
France, Anatole
To
accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
St. Francis
It is in giving that we receive.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature, and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Franklin, Benjamin
Be
civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
If
you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
Frankl, Victor E.
So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!" It seems to me that there is nothing that would stimulate a man's sense of responsibileness more than this maxim, which invites him to imagine first that the present is past and, second that the past may yet be changed and amended. Such a precept confronts him with life's finiteness as well as the finality of what he makes out of both his life and himself.
Freud, Sigmund
Style is the history of the man.
Fromm, Erich
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."
Frost, Robert
You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discriminations—what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.
Freedom lies in being bold.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Fuller
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
A
danger foreseen is half avoided.
Furguson, Guy
To
know how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor;
To be able to tell others is the accomplishment of the teacher;
To inspire others to do better work is the accomplishment of management;
To be able to do all three is the accomplishment of leadership.
Furness, Betty
When you want something, go back and go back and go back, and don't take no for an answer. And when rejection comes, don't take it personally. It goes with the territory. Expose yourself to as much humiliation as you can bear, then go home and go do it all again tomorrow.
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