Influence | |
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 4 likes | |
Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes | |
Love | |
It is nobler to love the person next to you than to love mankind in general. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes | |
Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 3 likes | |
Marriage | |
Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 4 likes | |
Family | |
Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes | |
Friendship | |
If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes | |
Socializing | |
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes | |
There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 4 likes | |
Arguing | |
Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 5 likes | |
Treating others | |
The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 4 likes | |
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 8 likes | |
Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for. | |
Trust | |
Trust is good, but control is better. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 14 likes | |
Trust, But Verify. — Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004, American President [1981-1989] 4 likes | |
All it takes is faith and trust. — from the film Peter Pan 4 likes | |
Reputation | |
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 4 likes | |
Talking | |
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman | |
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 3 likes | |
Listening | |
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman | |
Silence | |
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 5 likes | |
If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 15 likes | |
Seeing | |
One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 5 likes | |
Praise & Flattery | |
You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 3 likes | |
Submission | |
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 5 likes | |
Just as an enemy is more dangerous to a retreating army, so every trouble that fortune brings attacks us all the harder if we yield and turn our backs. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 8 likes | |
Insult | |
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes | |
Rejection | |
Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 2 likes | |
Conflict | |
He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 8 likes | |
Blame | |
You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 3 likes | |
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