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Words of Wisdom - QuotesWords were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. A rumour goes in one ear and out many mouths. I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. Two farmers each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on its head and the other pulled on its tail, the cow was milked by a lawyer. The future influences the present just as much as the past. Nothing is worth more than this day. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone. What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. The secret of success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing. I think I'll learn more from listening. Anything I would say I already know. Don't ask, "What if it doesn't work?" Ask instead, "What if it does?" Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself. We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. A good speech is like a miniskirt: short enough to be interesting, but long enough to cover the essentials. Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear. I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. The learning of books that you do not make your own wisdom is money in the hands of another in time of need. old Sanskrit proverb Search not the wound too deep, lest thou make a new one. How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves? The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. A sailor must have his eyes trained to the rocks and sands as well as the north star. To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy. It is better to live rich than to die rich. Be not penny-wise; riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves; sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us. Train a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. A child becomes an adult when he realises that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow. Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness Burn not your house to fright away the mice. There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. The kind of world we live in tomorrow depends - not partially - but entirely upon the type and quality of the education of our children today. Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. In short, the habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference. Find something to praise in your child every day. If I were younger, I'd know more. Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present. The child must teach the man. Never give a child a drum. Never tell a young person that something cannot be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossibility to do that thing. You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time which the character is being formed. Nothing speaks more loudly to a child than a good parent's quiet example. One thing only I know - and that is that I know nothing. Always be yourself. Otherwise, Who are you? |
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