July Quotes for Inspiration and Your Web Page (2004)
Leadership
The question “Who ought to be boss?” is like asking “Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?” Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
—Henry Ford
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch.
—Matthew 15:14
Maturity
How do you know the fruit is ripe?—Simple: When it leaves the branch.
—Andre Gide
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core strength within you that survives all hurt.
—Max Lerner
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of 50 you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
—Marya Mannes
A person’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
—Edward Weeks
Meaning
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude toward them.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is no meaning to life except that meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers, by living productively.
—Erich Fromm
Persuasion
To please people is the greatest step toward persuading them.
—Lord Chesterfield
Soft words are hard arguments.
—Thomas Fuller
Purpose
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
—Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
—Helen Keller
Good nature
The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?
—Congolese proverb
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
—Henry Ward Beecher
Of cheerfulnes, or a good temper—the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting, the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.
—Ovid
Attitude
When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it.
—Horace Rutledge
Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
—Fulton J. Sheen
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude or mind.
—William James
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
—Andrew Carnegie
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
—Katherine Mansfield
The question “Who ought to be boss?” is like asking “Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?” Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
—Henry Ford
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch.
—Matthew 15:14
Maturity
How do you know the fruit is ripe?—Simple: When it leaves the branch.
—Andre Gide
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core strength within you that survives all hurt.
—Max Lerner
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of 50 you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
—Marya Mannes
A person’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
—Edward Weeks
Meaning
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude toward them.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is no meaning to life except that meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers, by living productively.
—Erich Fromm
Persuasion
To please people is the greatest step toward persuading them.
—Lord Chesterfield
Soft words are hard arguments.
—Thomas Fuller
Purpose
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
—Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
—Helen Keller
Good nature
The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?
—Congolese proverb
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
—Henry Ward Beecher
Of cheerfulnes, or a good temper—the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting, the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.
—Ovid
Attitude
When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it.
—Horace Rutledge
Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
—Fulton J. Sheen
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude or mind.
—William James
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
—Andrew Carnegie
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
—Katherine Mansfield
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