I originally posted this on my old website in November 2002. I removed it on November 26, 2004, and reposted it on March 21, 2006. I am not the original creator; I am just sharing it.
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A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.
If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.
We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.
Honesty is something you can't wear out.
Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow.
You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
--Unknown; often attributed to a Doug Larson
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks and less from wise guys.
Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.
Nothing can keep an argument going like two persons who aren't sure what they're arguing about.
Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.
--Matthew Trump
If a thing goes without saying—let it.
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light-not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern.
It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million people for something you're not.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Disregard the immaterial and perfect the few things one does best.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
Anyone can make a mistake. A fool insists on repeating it.
--Robertine Maynard (Physicist)
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are the portals of discovery.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.
We are never prepared for what we expect.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.
Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
Never take counsel of your fears.
--General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
True power is knowing that you can, but you don't.
--Juliet Alicia Jarvis
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by ending it today.
You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.
Leadership is the key to victory.
There is no such thing as a fair fight.
--SEAL Commander Tim L. Bosiljevac
Never fight a battle when nothing is gained by winning.
Fortune favors the bold.
It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
When confronted with a challenge, immediately take the offensive.
You’ve got to be willing to give up good to get great.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
To achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination and wonder.
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.
The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
There is always an easy solution to every human problem-neat, plausible and wrong.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence.
Live your life so that if someone says “Be yourself,” it’s good advice.
It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
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