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- It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one.
- James Gordon Gilkey
- Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.
- Author Unknown
- Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
- U Thant
- Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
- Vida D. Scudder
- He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- It is a very serious duty, perhaps of all duties the most serious, to look into one's own character and conduct, and accurately read one's own heart. It is virtually looking into eternity, and all its vast and solemn realities, which must appear delightful or awful, according as the heart appears to be conformed or not conform to God.
- Emmons
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