For winners, losing inspires them. For losers, losing defeats them.
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it’s eight times as good as any other method. Its worst fault is that its leaders reflect their constituents – low level, but what can you expect?
Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen…
Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it.
Every second you spend thinking about someone else’s dreams, you take time away from your own.
It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.
Well ... I believe, when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties ... they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.
It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as a man and woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilisations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class.
Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions.
A State for one man is no State at all.