Saturday, May 31, 2008

Additional Quotes -

ABILITY

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Ability is sexless.
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

BEAUTY

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

COMPROMISE

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

CONTROL

Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.


TOLERANCE

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.

TRUST

Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
M
y father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."

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