WoW.txt

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Never cut what you can untie.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing others down, the other is in pulling them up.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.