I
cannot commend to a business house any artificial plan for making men
producers—any scheme for driving them into business building. You must
lead them through their self-interest. It
is this alone that will keep them keyed up to the full capacity of their
productiveness.
- Charles H. Steinway
If
it works, copy it.
- Tony Schwartz
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.
- Ann Landers
Attention improves retention
You
never know when you're making a memory.
- Rickie Lee Jones, singer
Whenever
evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we
can turn it into good. So shall we
take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
- Leigh Hunt
Reflect
on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past
misfortunes, of which all men have some.
- Charles Dickens
The
mistakes to avoid:
·
Remorse
over yesterday's failures.
·
Anxiety over
today's problems.
·
Worry over
tomorrow's uncertainty.
·
Waste of the
moment's opportunity.
·
Procrastination
with one's present duty.
·
Resentment of
another's success.
·
Criticism of
a neighbor's imperfection.
·
Impatience
with youth's immaturity.
·
Skepticism of
our nation's future.
·
Unbelief in
God's providence.
- William Arthur Ward, writer
Because
it hasn’t been done before, doesn’t mean it can’t be done.
Those who are afraid to make a mistake will never make a significant
achievement.
- Ted Hood, America’s Cup winner, The
Most Important Thing I Know, Lorne A. Adrain
The
Six Mistakes of Man
1. The delusion that personal gain
is made by crushing others.
2. The tendency to worry about
things that cannot be changed or corrected.
3. Insisting that a thing is
impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
4. Refusing to set aside trivial
preferences.
5. Neglecting development and
refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and studying.
6. Attempting to compel others to
believe and live as we do.
- Cicero
Smart
people learn from their own mistakes.
Smarter people learn from the mistakes of others.
- Michael Altshuler,
Motivational Speaker
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing
necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
- Henry Ford
Neither
let mistakes nor wrong directions, of which every man, in his studies and
elsewhere, falls into many, discourage you.
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more
and more right.
Only
those who do nothing never make mistakes.
- Mikhail Gorbachev, statesman
It is a frail mind that does not bear prosperity as well as adversity
with moderation.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let
all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence;
without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.
- Junius
The
art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree
below your means.
- Sir Henry Taylor
The
secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can
buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, and
privacy.
The darkest hour
of any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without
earning it.
- Horace Greeley, journalist and politician
Whenever
you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask
yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act
accordingly.
- Thomas Jefferson
The
three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual
achievement, but moral acts:
To
return love for hate,
To
include the excluded, and
To
say, "I was wrong."
- Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986), writer
The
commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a
mother—which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a
musician.
CAN
Concentrate
Action
Now
I
have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better
work and put forth grater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit
of criticism.
- Steel Magnate Charles Schwab
He
who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Nietzsche
Strong
reasons make strong actions.
- William Shakespeare
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