George Burton Adams Famous Quotes
"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success."
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
George Burton Adams Quotations
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac
Recognition is the greatest motivator.
Gerard C Eakedale
"It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him."
Charles Kingsley
"Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are."
Mickey Manfield
The plural of anecdote is data.
Ben J Wattenberg
After dark all cats are leopards. Zuni
American Indian Proverb
"What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn."
Henry Adams
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us.
Jean de la Bruyere
"In life, as in chess, forethought wins."
Charles Roberts Buxton
"Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles."
Marquis de Sade