Life Management Insights

Character  Management

• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide
• Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt
• When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein
• A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard
• The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James
• You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec
• Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Marston
• Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken
• My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov
• Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins
• We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz
• The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw
• Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz
• Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher
• A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde
• You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic 
• "Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy." -- Aristotle  philosopher 
• "He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly..." -- Proverbs 
• "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." -- Buddha  mystic, founder of Buddhism 
• "Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten." -- Buddha  mystic, founder of Buddhism
• A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. --Thomas Szasz
• Act the part and you will become the part. --William James
• All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization. --Calvin Coolidge
• Always do more than is required of you. --George Patton
• A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. --Albert Schweitzer
• An athlete was never made by mere instruction. No soldier was ever trained by the mere study of his manual, but by practicing his drill. Not the hearers of the law, but the doers are justified before God. We must be going forward, not standing still, simply listening and learning. Where our duty is seen God is revealed. Duty is always the will of God. To see it and not to do it, is a most disastrous thing for the man, as well as being an offense against God. --Outlook
• An Optimist is a person who undertakes a seemingly impossible task in a spirit of immeasurable enthusiasm, unbounded determination, unbelievable excitement, indestructible confidence, uncompromising thoroughness, and indefatigable persistence...with understandable success. --William Arther Ward
• A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. --Samuel Grafton
• A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it. --Alistair Cooke
• A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread. --Richard Armour
• Be everywhere, do everything, and never fail to astonish the customer. --Macy's Motto
• Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is. --F.D. Huntington
• Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. --Nicholai Velimirovic
• Be sincere; be brief; be seated. --Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. --Helen Keller
• Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight. --Jack Nicklaus