If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,
you'll find it's easy to slip into read more

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,
you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of
life that's far below what you deserve.

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for
failure-which is: Try to read more

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for
failure-which is: Try to please everybody.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of
character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal
fortitude. They are mandatory read more

Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of
character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal
fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at
the top.

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to
shut our eyes against read more

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to
shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of the
siren, till she transforms us into beasts.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.