Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.
—Dale Carnegie (American Author)
My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
—Michel de Montaigne (French Philosopher)
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
—William Arthur Ward (American Author)
The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition.
—Martin H. Fischer
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
—Igor Stravinsky (Russian-born American Composer)
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
—Virgil (Roman Poet)
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
—Norman Vincent Peale (American Clergyman, Self-Help Author)
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
—Norman Vincent Peale (American Clergyman, Self-Help Author)
Ignore what a man desires, and you ignore the very source of his power.
—Walter Lippmann (American Journalist)
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
—Gloria Steinem (American Feminist)