Anger / Greatness / Pride / Success

• He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
• Anger is seldom without a reason, but seldom a good one. - Benjamin Franklin
• The greatest remedy for anger is delay. - Seneca
• For every minute you're angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
• Some people are like firecrackers - they explode when heat is applied.
• When a man loses his temper, his reason goes on vacation.
• The man who cannot be angry at evil usually lacks enthusiasm for good.
• One of the sorriest spectacles imaginable is the anger of two people who have gotten into an argument over something that neither of them knows anything about.
• You are not a dynamic person simply because you blow your top.
• A husband and wife made it a point not to argue over anything not worth arguing about. Of course this led to some dandy fights over whether or not a subject is worthwhile.
• Many an argument is sound - and only sound.

When I have lost my temper
I have lost my reason too.
I'm never proud of anything
Which angrily I do.
When I have Talked in anger
And my cheeks were flaming red
I always uttered some thing
Which I wish I had not said,
In anger I have never
Done a kind deed or wise,
But many things for which I felt
I should apologize.
In looking back across my life,
And all I've lost or made,
I can't recall a single time
When furry ever paid.
So I struggle to be patient,
For I've reached a wiser age;
I do not want to do a thing
Or speak a word in rage.
I have learned by sad experience
That when my temper flies
I never do a worthy deed,
A decent deed or wise.

Greatness Top of the page

• It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but it takes an even greater man to accept it graciously.
• Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
• In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen, in small things they show themselves as they are. S, Chamfort
• The great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child. Mencius
• There is a pinch of the madman in every great man. French Proverb
• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. - Mark Twain
• The price of greatness is responsibility. - Sir Winston Churchill
• It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. - Benjamin Franklin
• The measure of man is what he does with power. - Pittacus (650-569 B.C.)
• Great minds...discuss ideas. Average minds...discuss events. Small minds...discuss people.
• He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness. - St. Francis de Sales
• One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.
• Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
• Great men see where small men sigh.
• The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.
• One test of a persons strength is his knowledge of his weakness.
• The heights by great men reached and kept,
  Were not attained by sudden flight,
  But they, when their companions slept,
  Were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Pride Top of the page

• Flattery is like perfume; you're supposed to smell it, not swallow it.
• The egoist is an "I" specialist.
• A man who is truly great doesn't have to prove it; and if he isn't great, trying to prove it will do no good.
• A person interrupts and endangers his climb up the ladder of success when he stops to pat himself on the back.
• When an egotist doesn't understand something in a book, he decides it must be a misprint.
• A conceited man once said, "Most people won't admit their faults. I'd admit mine if I had any."
• Give some people an inch and they think they're rulers.
• The World's most conceited man was the fellow who celebrate his birthday by sending his mother a telegram of congratulations.
• Blessed is the man who is willing to work as a member of the committee of which he really wanted to be the chairman.
• To be unusually pleased with yourself is the surest way of offending everyone else.

Success Top of the page

• Success is sweet, but its secret is sweat.
• The hardest thing about climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
• No one is a failure who can truly say, "I have done my best."
• Nature gave men two ends; one to sit on and on to think with. Man's success or failure is dependent on the one he uses most.
• Success is not measured by the heights one attains, but by the obstacles that were overcome in their attainment.
• You won't find many rules for success that will work unless you do.
• If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem wonderful at all. -Michelangelo
• Of all sad words of the tongue or pen, the saddest are, "It might have been."
• Sadder than work left unfinished is work never begun.
• For success, try aspiration, inspiration, and perspiration.
• Making mistakes isn't stupid; disregarding them is.
• The president of a highly rated company was asked the secret of his success. "It's really simple", he said, "I always apply the Rule of the three D's: Do it, Delegate it, or Ditch it".
• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. Luna Turner.
• To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. William Shakespeare
• Success is a ladder which cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets.
• There is something about your success that displeases even your best friends. Oscar Wilde
• Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. Baltasar Garcian
• Success has ruined many a man. Benjamim Franklin
• Of course there is no formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. Arthur Rubinstein
• Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it; better to have lost some battles than to have retreated from war; better to have failed when serving God than to have succeeded when serving the devil. What a tragedy to climb the ladder of success only to discover that the ladder was leaning against the wrong wall. Erwin W. Lutzer
• Lord Byron said, "I've drunk of every fount of pleasure and quaffed every cup of fame, and yet I die of thirst!"
• A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
• Try not to be a person of success. But rather a person of value. - unknown
• Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can. - Henry Drummond
• They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you make them feel. - Carol Buchner
• Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. - Henry Ward Beecher
• A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. A. Golden
• Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. - George Eliot
• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison
• A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. - John C. Maxwell
• The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James
• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford
• After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. - Italian Proverb
• Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
  - Abraham Lincoln
• What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? - Robert Schuller
• We never know what we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow. - B.J. Palmer
• What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside you. - Wayne Dyer
• Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. - Malcolm Forbes
• Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. - Cherie Carter-Scott
• Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man. - R. Duvall
• I talk(a lot), and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. - Mario Cuomo
• The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. - Benjamin Mays
• If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.
  You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• It is when the well is dry that we know the price of water. - Ben Franklin
• To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up. - Ralph Bunche
• Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Anonymous
• Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts. -Sir Winston Churchill
• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. -Vince Lambardi
• The secret of joy in work is contained in one word -- excellence.
  To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. -Pearl S. Buck
• What we have done for ourselves dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. -Albert Pike
• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill
• Success is how high you bounce with you hit bottom. - General George Patton
• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford
• 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. - Sam Ewig
• The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men. - Captain J.A. Hatfield
• Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success. Rev. Randall R. McBride Jr.
• Rule your mind or it will rule you - Horace
• Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. - George Halas
• Attach yourself to your passion, but not to your pain. Adversity is your best friend on the path to success. - unknown
• A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with bricks that others throw at him. - Sidney Greenberg
• As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person. - Paul Shane Spear
• I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. - Talleyrand
• I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. - Helen Keller
• Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds. - Unknown
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
• Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. - Kim Lyons
• Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.
  - Sandra Carey
• If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. - David Ambrose
• How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. - David Norris
• Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. - Barbara Johnson
• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened; vision cleared; ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller
• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies, for the hardest victory is
  victory over self. - Aristotle
• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our
  windows today. - Dale Carnegie
• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S Truman
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in
  others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The mind is like a parachute - it works only when it is open. - Unknown
• Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work. - Henry Ford
• The purpose of life is a life of purpose - Robert Byrne
• Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required. - Sir Winston Churchill
• Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. - (On an American plaque)
• The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. - Richard Bach
• The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well. - John D. Rockefeller
• The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster. - Rosabeth Moss Cantor
• Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.
  - Mother Teresa
• A competitive world has two possibilities for you: you can lose or, if you want to win, you can change. - Lester C. Thurow
• Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? - Frank Scully
• There are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself, employ someone or forbid your children to do it.
  - Monta Crane
• The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. - Benjamin Disraeli
• Sucess is getting up one more time than falling down. - Unknown
• Success has made failures out of many men. - Unknown
• Success is a great defeat when its success in the World & takes you away from God. (the Holy Bible - Mark 8:36)
• But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. St. Paul