Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.