| Character | |
 | Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 6 likes |
 | There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 7 likes |
 | Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. |
| Mind | |
| You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else. |
| Attitude | |
 | The man who says he can, and the man who says he can not are both correct. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 7 likes |
 | Take things always by their smooth handle. — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 5 likes |
 | Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 5 likes |
| You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 14 likes |
| Perspective | |
 | The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 3 likes |
| Enjoy Life | |
 | Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health, and love. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 8 likes |
 | If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 5 likes |
| Optimism | |
 | A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 11 likes |
| Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 6 likes |
 | A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 7 likes |
| Opinion | |
 | Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 6 likes |
| Beliefs | |
 | In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold. — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 8 likes |
| Memory | |
 | If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them. — Bob Dylan, 1941-, American singer [Nobel 2016] 8 likes |
| Appearance | |
 | All your Greek will never advance you from secretary to envoy, or from envoy to ambassador; but your address, your manner, your air, if good, very probably may. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 3 likes |
| A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 4 likes |
| Luck & Chance | |
| I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 4 likes |
 | Fortune favors the bold. Audentes fortuna iuvat. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 144 likes |
| Destiny | |
 | We must always take risks. That is our destiny. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 3 likes |
| Excitement | |
 | The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 11 likes |
| Create a life you can’t wait to live. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 9 likes |
| Anxiety | |
 | Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 13 likes |
| Worry is the most significant factor that relates to the root of negative thinking. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 4 likes |
| Fear | |
| F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 16 likes |
 | The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything. — Frank Sinatra, 1915-1998, American singer 6 likes |
| Timidity | |
 | Humility is a virtue; timidity is a disease. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 4 likes |
| Value | |
 | The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 6 likes |
| Ability | |
 | He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 5 likes |
 | He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 8 likes |
| The man who says he can, and the man who says he can not are both correct. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 7 likes |
 | Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. — Bill Gates, 1955-, American businessman 3 likes |
 | We must consult our means rather than our wishes. — George Washington, 1732-1799, the first American President 3 likes |
| Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 6 likes |
 | Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re probably right. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 8 likes |
| There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 3 likes |
| Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 4 likes |
| They can because they think they can. Possunt, quia posse videntur. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 97 likes |
| If you can dream it, you can achieve it. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 3 likes |
 | Anything you can imagine you can make real. — Jules Verne, 1826-1905, French writer 5 likes |
| Talent | |
 | One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 6 likes |
 | Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you’re willing to practice, you can do. |
| Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power? — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 5 likes |
 | Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. |
 | Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction 6 likes |
| Firmness | |
 | You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 15 likes |
 | All through life, be sure and put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm. — Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, American President 6 likes |
| Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
| Genius | |
 | Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 7 likes |
| Intelligence | |
 | The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 11 likes |
| Skills | |
| You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 7 likes |
 | Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 5 likes |
| Understanding | |
| I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 3 likes |
 | When you prove yourself capable of one thing and you understand one subject, you can be sure to understand many more. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 3 likes |
| Courage | |
| Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 7 likes |
| Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 6 likes |
| This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never! — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 10 likes |
| Mental toughness is essential to success. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 3 likes |
| Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 3 likes |
| Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk — especially in new undertakings. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 2 likes |
 | Have the courage to act instead of react. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 8 likes |
| No man is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative. |
| Willpower | |
 | The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 6 likes |
| The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 2 likes |
| 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 Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 2 likes |
| We gather strength as we go. Vires acquirit eundo. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 109 likes |
 | I must dare, whether I succeed or fail. Τολμάν ανάγκη, καν τύχω καν μη τύχω. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Hecuba 12 likes |
 | Where the will is ready, the feet are light. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
 | The most important thing in life is to stop saying “I wish” and start saying “I will.” Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. |
 | There is no force in the universe more powerful than your will or power. |
 | There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all! |
| Positive thinking | |
| He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 5 likes |
 | Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
| Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 3 likes |
| When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 5 likes |
| Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
| Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 2 likes |
| The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
| With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 2 likes |
 | Never wait for trouble. — Chuck Yeager, 1923-2020, American pioneer pilot 2 likes |
 | At the darkest moment comes the light. |
| A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done. |
 | Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore. — Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer 5 likes |
| Self-reliance | |
| Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 5 likes |
 | Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah. It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 5 likes |
| Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 6 likes |
 | If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. — Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American self-help writer 6 likes |
 | I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go. |
| Confidence | |
 | Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. — Golda Meir, 1898-1978, Israeli Prime Minister 10 likes |
 | Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 6 likes |
| Self-trust is the first secret of success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
 | In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 4 likes |
| Sincerity is the surest road to confidence. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 3 likes |
| They can because they think they can. Possunt, quia posse videntur. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 97 likes |
| Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you. |
| To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself. — Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American self-help writer 3 likes |
| Boldness | |
| Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 11 likes |
 | Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 11 likes |
| Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 3 likes |
| Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 4 likes |
| Do one thing every day that scares you. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 4 likes |
| What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail? — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 8 likes |
| It's kind of fun to do the impossible. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 4 likes |
| First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 5 likes |
| Fortune favors the bold. Audentes fortuna iuvat. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 144 likes |
| Boldness in Business is the first, second, and third thing. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
 | Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. — George Herbert, 1593-1633, Welsh poet 1 likes |
| Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it. |
| Self-knowledge | |
 | To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 4 likes |
| Honesty | |
| Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 6 likes |
 | Always act as if you were seen. |
| Responsibility | |
| If not us, who? If not now, when? — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 3 likes |
| Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 21 likes |
| You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 3 likes |
| Humility | |
| Humility is a virtue; timidity is a disease. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 4 likes |
| Generosity | |
| Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 2 likes |
| Simplicity | |
| That’s been one of my mantras: focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 2 likes |
| Resilience | |
| If you’re going through hell, keep going. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 23 likes |
| Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 4 likes |
 | You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 18 likes |
| It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 4 likes |
 | The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman 4 likes |
| Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. |
 | We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. |
 | A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure. |
 | The advice I would give the younger me—or any young person—would be “Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success.” — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 7 likes |
| Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again. — Frank Sinatra, 1915-1998, American singer 3 likes |
 | Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final. — Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet 4 likes |
 | In any profession, if you want to be at the top, you have to withstand pressure. The pressure of goals, of problems, of criticism, of dissatisfaction, of undermining, of demands. — Manolis Doukides, Greek writer 1 likes |
| Excellence | |
 | If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 3 likes |
| Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 3 likes |
 | Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 4 likes |
| If you‘ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 2 likes |
| Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 5 likes |
| Make each day your masterpiece. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 2 likes |
 | Be so good they can’t ignore you. — Steve Martin, 1945-, American actor 5 likes |
 | I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. |
 | In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. |
| The man who does more than he is paid for, and does it in a pleasant mental attitude, sooner or later is paid for more than he does. — Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American self-help writer 4 likes |
| If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. |
| Greatness | |
 | A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. — Otto von Bismarck, 1815-1898, German chancellor 7 likes |
 | In order to achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die. — Vauvenargues, 1715-1747, French author of maxims 3 likes |
| You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | Our greatness will appear Then most conspicuous, when great things of small, Useful of hurtful, prosperous of adverse, We can create. — John Milton, 1608-1674, English poet 2 likes |
 | It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. |
| Laziness | |
 | Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 2 likes |
| Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
| Faults | |
| Don’t find fault, find a remedy. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 2 likes |
| Vanity | |
| Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. — Bill Gates, 1955-, American businessman 5 likes |
| Complacency | |
| Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 2 likes |
| Be happy, but never satisfied. |
| Stupidity | |
 | To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 16 likes |
 | If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. |
| Strength & Weakness | |
| Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 6 likes |
| You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 18 likes |
 | Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for. |
| Ineffectiveness | |
 | There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 3 likes |
| Incompetence | |
 | He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 37 likes |
| Mediocrity | |
| If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
| Normality is a paved road. It’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow on it. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 7 likes |
| The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 3 likes |
| Reluctance | |
 | The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 4 likes |
| Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 4 likes |
| Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat. — Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. |
| Difficult people | |
| Don't do business with anyone who has a history of suing people. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 3 likes |
| Self-destruction | |
 | Find what you love and let it kill you. |
| Envy | |
| It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him. |
| Audacity | |
 | Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy. |
| Indifference | |
| Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 8 likes |
| Inaction | |
| Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 9 likes |
 | The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 3 likes |
| You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
| If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 4 likes |
 | There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 3 likes |
| An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish. |
| Tolerance | |
| Masters should be sometimes blind and sometimes deaf. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 2 likes |
| Boring | |
| If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 4 likes |
 | The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
| Unworthiness | |
| Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 2 likes |
| Belittling | |
 | There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff. — Finn Taylor, 1958-, American film director 7 likes |
| Cunning | |
 | Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Macbeth 14 likes |
| One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 14 likes |
| Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 7 likes |
| Pride | |
| Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 3 likes |
| Refusal | |
| Learn how to say no. Don’t let your mouth overload your back. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
| Disliking | |
| Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 7 likes |
 | Who likes not his business, his business likes not him. |
| Criticism | |
 | Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 3 likes |
| Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 13 likes |
| You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 3 likes |
| Aggressiveness | |
 | Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 1 likes |
| Doubt | |
| Never take anything for granted. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 7 likes |
| A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 6 likes |
| Explanations | |
| He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 37 likes |
 | Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 4 likes |
| Anger | |
| When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 3 likes |
| Revenge | |
| You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 4 likes |
| Running away | |
| Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
| When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 5 likes |
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