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- He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
- C. C. Colton
- Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
- Author Unknown
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
- Author Unknown
- When I was a small boy I was always being told by others, especially grown ups, to behave, to be good. It never occurred to me that I was always behaving in some manner. But I didn't have the awareness or skill to ask those grown ups what they meant when they told me to behave and to be good. Now I realize that all they wanted was for me to conform to their idea of what was good and not to do what they called bad behavior, which they sometimes changed at will. Even today people are still telling me how I should behave, but now I ask what they mean and sometimes it drives them up a wall.
- Sidney Madwed
- Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Dr. George W. Crane
- The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.
- Bruce Henderson
- If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.
- Upham
- Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
- Mere
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