“No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.”
Good“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
Attitude“No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.”
Good“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”
Power“Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”
Work“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.”
Nature“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.”
Leadership“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.”
Faith“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”
Best“To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.”
Change“Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”
Knowledge“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.”
Attitude“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”
Life“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
Attitude“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
Great“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
Humor“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
Life“Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!”
Faith“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”
Truth“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
Attitude“'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.”
Experience“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”
Happiness