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Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.
People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!
The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.
The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.
The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.
Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.
Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.
No matter what our circumstances, our greatest limitation isn't the leader above us - it's the spirit within us.
If you are going to emphasize certain words in the headline, be sure that they are the words that say something.
We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.
Everyone is giving something. Everyone is giving what has their heart. What I'm giving you is what has my heart.
If you die of cancer with only openness and softness in your heart, you will live and die integrating your self.
Oneness means that as awareness, your relationship with knowing is clean. Then for you to know is for you to be.
You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." Erak to Halt.
I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.
We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.
How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.
There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.
How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.
But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.
Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.
People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat
For the longest time, you couldnt even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.
Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.
Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.
Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.
Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life.
You can build radiant health, success and happiness by the thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind.
The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them.
I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.
One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.
The one thing everybody's looking for is unconditional love. We all need somebody to love us just the way we are
I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life.
After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God's love. It took me years to truly understand it.