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There are four types of people: Smart and lazy, Smart and full of energy, Stupid and lazy, Stupid and full read more
There are four types of people: Smart and lazy, Smart and full of energy, Stupid and lazy, Stupid and full of energy
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
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There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behoves any of us
To find fault with the rest of us.
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the read more
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
Most men are bad.
Most men are bad.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious,
Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.
Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious,
Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the
heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There read more
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the
heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in
their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy,
and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are
filled with earthy and material things.
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.