Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.
Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.
Appreciation is the legal tender that all souls enjoy.
Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.
Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.
If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I’ll tell you what you are.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates.
Try leaving a trail of little sparks of gratitude on your daily trips. You will be surprised how they will set small flames of friendship that will be rose beacons on your next visit.
When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don’t keep putting off decisions.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men can’t put the past together again. So let’s remember: Don’t try to saw sawdust.
If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.
Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas’s, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.
You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.
Today is the only time we can possibly live.
People say I’m cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future’s going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?
Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.
If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, “Things that never happened.”