Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.