Great Throughts Treasury

"Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens."

"A ruler isn't always straight."

"A thought for each day: Make it through until tomorrow."

"Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea."

"Ability is useless unless it's used."

"Death is the penalty we all pay for the privilege of life."

"Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument."

"Aspirations can cure headaches"

"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers."

"Having respect for your own time will assure respect for the other person's time"

"He who speaks the loudest is the least heard."

"How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character."

"If birds of a feather flock together, they don't learn enough."

"Even a boring occupation can be interesting when your goal is to do it better."

"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too."

"Free advice is worth the price."

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

"Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back a lot more than you'd expect."

"It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right."

"It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options."

"Life's about one day at a time."

"Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake."

"No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time."

"No matter what your age is."

"Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails."

"It's hard to believe that someday I'll be an ancestor."

"No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem."

"No one has to become muscle bound by exercising the mind"

"People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to."

"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing? Never."

"Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite."

"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income."

"The combination of hard work and smart work is efficient work."

"The brain is a mass of cranial nerve tissue, most of it in mint condition."

"The search for someone to blame is always successful."

"The odds are against getting even with people because the odds are they'll get even with you."

"Postponement: the sincerest form of rejection."

"The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth."

"The secret of what life's all about."

"There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working."

"There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do."

"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

"Time spent on hiring is time well spent."

"What happens when the future has come and gone?"

"When one teaches, two learn."

"Was answered by the sages:"

"When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with God's help."

"When the customer comes first, the customer will last."

"When your future arrives, will you blame your past?"

"Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes?"