Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast.
Kids don’t lack capacity, only teachers.
No one else ‘makes us angry.’ We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test.
It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.
All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.
The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn’t come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.
Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.
Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It’s not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.
One of the reasons many people don’t have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.
Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.
Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.
Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.
Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.
God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.
You must get good at one of two things: planting in the spring or begging in the fall.
Be fascinated instead of frustrated.
Don’t ask for life to be easy. Ask for it to be worth it.
When the promise is clear, the price gets easy.