WednesdayMay 20, 2026
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Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you're working at.
When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.
When the mood moves you move with it.
When profit is unshared it's less likely to grow greater.
Too many people overvalue what they're not and undervalue what they are.
Too few accomplish twice as much as too many.
Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.
If you want understanding try giving some.
In the long run, a short cut seldom is.
If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
One of the ceaseless wonders of the world is the power of a smile.
The day nothing turns you on you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.
There's no way to move without making waves.
The hardest work of all doing nothing.
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
Sometimes doing what's expected is more effective than doing the unexpected.
There's a big difference between cheap and reasonable.
If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
Thinkers perish. Thoughts don't.
To the infantryman, his country's military might is only those buddies he can see, and the equipment they have at hand; likewise, to the wage-earner, 'free enterprise' is primarily the way his boss treats him and those around him.
Most everyone wants to do what's fair, right and good. Knowing what is is often the tough part.
If you don't know what you want to do it's harder to do it.
Give much...get same.
Attention it's more fun to get than to give.
Advice it's more fun to give than to receive.
A man can't do more than he can but he can at least do that much.
It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.
Unconsciously I had discovered the commentator's secret weaponthat so long as you can wield words, it isn't necessary to know what you're talking about.
Most of us are better when things go better.
Trying to impress others does usually in quite the opposite way.
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
It's much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
The smart ones ask when they dont know. And, sometimes, when they do.
Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.
... the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.
Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.
Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.
Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.
Living and dreaming are two different things but you can't do one without the other.
One often reads about the art of conversationhow it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.
How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
It's very flattering to ask others about matters they're little qualified to discuss.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics they don't understand the democratic processthey have neither the tolerance nor the depth it takes democracy isn't a business.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
The ultimate high: a man's abilities equaling his opinion of them.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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