Necessity truns lion into fox.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.