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Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Appearance | Virtue | Virtue | Words |
Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
Words |
Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
A noble person is ashamed to let her words outrun her deeds.
Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
There were four words of which the Master barred the use: he would have no "shall's," no "must's," no "certainly's," no "I's."
Words |
Chief Joseph, born Hinmuuttu-yalatlat
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Loneliness | Solitude | Words |
Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: "Have no anxiety about the morrow"; or the words of Sir William Osler; "Live in day-tight compartments.
Anxiety | Anxiety | Day | Happy | Life | Life | Majority | People | Present | Troubles | Words |
Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely and discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime
Appreciation | Giving | Power | Tomorrow | Will | Words | World | Appreciation | Happiness |
As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.
It is a paradox of the post-industrial age that, despite its technical omnipotence, it is as dominated by words and magic as any primitive tribe. A haze of empty words, coming from the word factories of the universities, is corrupting the air of our ailing cities. The young lurch not so much from one illusion to another as from one cliché to another.