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L Author
La Fontaine
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
Lagermann, John Kord
The unconscious part of your brain never stops working. So when you're faced with a perplexing job, work on it as hard as you can. Then, if you can't lick it, try sleeping on it or taking a walk or relaxing with friends. If you have primed yourself with all available facts, the answer is likely to "dawn" on you while your mind is seemingly at rest. . . . How can you develop your intuitive powers? Like any other form of thinking, intuition requires an alertness, sensitivity and discipline of mind which have to be cultivated. . . . Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.
L’Amour, Lous (1908-1988), writer
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.
Landers,
Ann
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words, "This too shall pass." Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Maturity
is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or
destruction.
Maturity
is patience. It is the willingness
to pass up immediate pleasure in favor of long-term gain.
Maturity
is perseverance, the ability to sweat out a situation in spite of heavy
opposition and discouraging setbacks.
Maturity
is the capacity to face unpleasantness and frustrations, discomfort, and defeat,
without complaint or collapse.
Maturity
is humility. It is being big enough
to say, “I was wrong” and when right, the mature person need not experience
the satisfaction of saying, “I told you so.”
Maturity
is the ability to make a decision and stand by it.
The immature spend their lives exploring endless possibilities; then they
do nothing.
Maturity
means dependability, keeping one’s word, coming through in a crisis. The immature are masters of the alibi. They are the confused and disorganized. Their lives are a maze of broken promises, former friends,
unfinished business, and good intentions that somehow never materialize.
Maturity
is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change, the courage to
change that which should be changed—and the wisdom to know the difference.
The
Ten Commandments of How To Get Along With People
1.
Keep skid chains on your tongue; always say less than you think.
Cultivate a low, persuasive voice. How
you say it often counts more than what you say.
2.
Make promises sparingly, and keep them faithfully, no matter what it
costs.
3.
Never let an opportunity pass to say a kind and encouraging word to or
about somebody. Praise good work,
regardless of who did it. If criticism is needed, criticize helpfully, never
spitefully.
4.
Be interested in others, their pursuits, their work, their homes and
families. Make merry with those who
rejoice; with those who weep, mourn. Let
everyone you meet however humble, feel that you regard him as a person of
importance.
5.
Be cheerful. Don’t burden or depress those around you by dwelling on
your minor aches and pains and small disappointments. Remember, everyone is carrying some kind of load.
6.
Keep an open mind. Discuss but don’t argue.
It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being
disagreeable.
7.
Let your virtues, if you have any, speak for themselves.
Refuse to talk of another’s vices.
Discourage gossip. It is a
waste of valuable time and can be extremely destructive.
8.
Be careful of another’s feelings. Wit
and humor at the other person’s expense are rarely worth it and may hurt when
least expected.
9.
Pay no attention to ill-natured remarks about you.
Remember, the person who carried the message may not be the most accurate
reporter in the world. Simply live
so that nobody will believe them. Disordered
nerves and bad digestion are a common cause of back-biting.
10.
Don’t be too anxious about the credit due you.
Do your best, and be patient. Forget
about yourself, and let others “remember.”
Success is much sweeter that way.
Lao-tzu
The wise man does not lay up treasure; his riches are within. The more he gives to others, the more he has of his own.
La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Larsen, Chistian D.
Creed
for Optimists
Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
Make all your friends feel there is something special in them.
Look at the sunny side of everything.
Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best.
Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
Give everyone a smile.
Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others.
Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
Lea
It's
odd to think we
might have been
Sun, moon and stars
unto each other;
Only I turned down
one little street
As you went up
another.
LeBoeuf
"Try to handle each piece of paper only once." Every time you pick up a piece of paper needing your action, failing to act only means you'll have to double your time and energy spent on it by picking it up again.
Le Carre, John, Writer
The desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
Lee, Robert E.
It
is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.
Le Guin, Ursula K.,
writer
Love doesn't sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Lewis, C.S.
The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
Lincoln
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
If you would win a man to your cause, fist convince him that you are his sincere friend.
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that "a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall." So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.
I will prepare and someday my chance will come.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it, will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.
Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Liniger, Dave founder, RE/MAX International Inc.
Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently.
Linnaeus
Know thyself.
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
Lois
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
Lombardi, Vince
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Talk not of wasted affection! Affection never was wasted. . . .
Nor
deem the irrevocable past
As wholly wasted, wholly vain
If, rising on its wrecks, at last
To something nobler we attain.
Loren, Sophia
Sex appeal is 50 per cent what you've got, and 50 percent what people think you've got.
Ludwig, Emil (1881-1948)
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
Jerry Lynch, Ph.D.
When you believe and
think I can, you activate your motivation, commitment, confidence,
concentration, and excitement, all of which relate directly to achievement.
- Runner’s World, August 1994.
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