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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
-- Howard W. Newton
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
-- John Andrew Holmes
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-- Norman MacFinan
Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
-- Harvey Fierstein
Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.
-- Brian Tracy
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle.
-- John Watson
There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else."
--Cyrus Curtis
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.
Stupidity got us into this mess - why can't it get us out?
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Take time to laugh – it is the music of the soul.
-- From an old English prayer
Never say goodbye when you still want to try.
Never give up when you still feel you can take it.
Pain is temporary, pride is forever.
--Anonymous
The growth of wisdom may be gauged by the decline of ill temper.
Discussion is an exchange is knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance.
By the time a person is old enough to know better, he is smart enough not to get caught.
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.
It is a strange commentary that the head never begins to swell until the mind stops growing.
If you want to be original, be yourself; God never made two people exactly alike.
Nature couldn't make us perfect, so she did the next best thing-- she made us blind to our faults.
You cant' control the length of your life, but you can control its use. You can't control you facial appearance, but you can control its expression. You can't control the weather, but you can control the moral atmosphere that surrounds you. You can't control the distance of you head above the ground, but you can control the height of the contents in your head. You can't control the other fellow's annoying faults, but you can see to it that you do not develop similar faults. Why worry about the things you cannot control? Get busy controlling the things that depend on YOU.
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
You can't help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Actions speak louder than words--it is by our deed that we are known.
It is a rare thing to win an argument and the other fellow's respect at the same time.
Those who make the worst use of their time complain most of its shortness.
Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are usually the ones who dropped it.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Temper is so good a thing that we should never lose it.
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
When you are right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the the wrong you cannot afford to lose it.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
It is nice to be important -- but much more important to be nice.
You have become a mature person when keeping a secret gives you more satisfaction than passing it along.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
You can't keep people from having bad opinions about you, but you can keep them from being true.
If you are willing to admit when you are wrong, you are right.
Those who complain most are most to be complained of.
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.
Kindness is the prime factor in overcoming friction and making the human machinery run smoothly.
Take time to THINK -- it is the source of power.
Take time to PLAY -- it is the secret of perpetual youth.
Take time to be FRIENDLY -- it is the road to happiness.
Take time to LOVE -- it is a God-given privilege.
Take time to READ -- it is a fountain of wisdom.
Take time to PRAY -- it is the greatest power on earth.
Take time to LAUGH -- it is the music of the soul.
Take time to GIVE -- it is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to WORK -- it is the price of success.
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning, and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
You can take the day off, but you can't put it back.
Are you contributing to the solution or adding to the problem?
One of the most important trips a man can make is that involved in meeting the other fellow half way.
One way to stop people from from jumping down your throat is to keep your mouth shut.
God gave man a mouth that closes and ears that don't -- which should tell us something.
The only reason some people listen to reason is to gain time for a rebuttal.
What you hear never sounds half as important as what you overhear.
A little white lie soils quickly.
When I want to speak, let me first think: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If not, let it be left unsaid.
It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than it is to open it and prove it.
There's nothing that so often seems to go with a narrow mind as a wide mouth.
It is better to let people wonder why you didn't talk than why you did.
Always speak the truth and you'll never be concerned with your memory.
If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word that you have spoken about people, and collected five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
The safest principle in life is to set about perfecting yourself instead of trying to reform others.
One reason folks get into trouble is that trouble usually starts out being fun.
Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen!
Just because things go wrong is no reason you have to go with them.
The difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
It's better to get something in the eye and wink, than to wink and get something in the eye.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Temper gets us in trouble; pride keeps us there.
If you blame others for your failure, do you credit others for your success?
The greatest calamity is not to have failed, but to have failed to try.
Make up your mind you can't, and you're always right.
If you must talk about your troubles, don't bore your friends with them -- tell them to your enemies, who will be delighted to hear about them.
Why were the saints, saints? Because they were cheerful when it was difficult to be cheerful, patient when it was difficult to be patient; and because they pushed on when they wanted to stand still, and kept silent when they wanted to talk, and were agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable. That was all. It was quite simple and always will be.
A smile is a cheer to you and me
The cost is nothing -- it's given free
It comforts the weary -- gladdens the sad
Consoles those in trouble -- good or bad
To rich and poor -- beggar or thief
It's free to all of any belief
A natural gesture of young and old
Cheers on the faint -- disarms the bold
Unlike most blessings for which we pray
It's one thing we keep when we give it away.
When you are angry for one minute, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
-- Harold B. Melchart
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
-- Joseph Joubert