💬 Quotes

"Dare to do right, dare to be true, / You have a work that no other can do."

"Hard work is wholesome, and a little dirt does no harm; so don't be afraid of it."

"Boys are like plants, you know; they grow best in the sunshine."

"It is an easy thing to be good when you are happy, but it is very hard to be patient when you are tried."

"Money is a good thing, but it doesn't buy everything, and some of the happiest people in the world have very little of it."

"We are all a great family here, and we must help one another along."

"All things change; nothing dies. The spirit wanders, arriving here or there, and taking possession of whatever limbs it pleases, passing from beasts into human bodies, and from our bodies into beasts, but never perishing."

"My mind is set to tell of bodies changed into new forms. You, Gods, since you are the ones who made these arts, inspire my undertaking, and lead my song in one unbroken thread from the very origin of the world down to my own time."

"I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse."

"Happy is he who commands his own life and can say: 'Today I have lived; tomorrow, let the Father spread his canopy over the sky with black clouds or with clear sunshine.'"

"Love cannot be cured by herbs."

"Time, the devourer of all things, and you, envious age, together destroy all things that exist, and little by little consume them in a slow death."

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

"Effectiveness can be learned—and it also has to be learned."

"The effective executive focuses on contribution. He looks up from his work and outward toward results rather than inward toward his work and his skills."

"To be effective focuses on the opportunities, not on the problems. Feeding opportunities starves the problems."

"Decision-making is only a-means-to-an-end. It is a means rather than an end in itself. It is a judgment among alternatives. It is rarely a choice between right and wrong."

"The effective executive makes strengths productive. He knows that one cannot build on weakness."

"Je n'enseigne point, je raconte."

"Que sais-je ?"