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Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high
position.
[Lat., Asperius nihil est humil read more
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high
position.
[Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit in altum.]
The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.
The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like read more
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. -John Steinbeck.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the read more
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't read more
I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job read more
People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found read more
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the read more
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.