"The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie."
- Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
Columnist
Positive thoughts
Printable View
"The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie."
- Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
Columnist
Positive thoughts
"Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out."
- Eleanor Porter (1868 - 1920)
American Novelist
Positive thoughts
"What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
German philosopher
Positive thoughts
"You, enlightened, self-sufficient, self-governed, endowed with gifts above your fellows, the world expects you to produce as well as to consume, to add to and not to subtract from its store of good, to build up and not to tear down, to ennoble and not degrade. The time is short, the opportunity is great; therefore, crowd the hours with the best that is in you."
- John Hibben, , 1913 graduation address
president of Princeton University
Positive thoughts
"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
American Writer
Positive thoughts
"Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best."
- David O. McKay (1873 - 1970)
American Religious Leader
Positive thoughts
"What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully."
- Charles Victor Cherbuliez
(1829-1899) French Novelist
Positive thoughts
"Patience is passion tamed."
- Lyman Abbott (1835 - 1922)
American Congregationalist theologian
Positive thoughts
One day one step at a time ~pkstracy~.
"I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views."
- Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) 16th President of the United States
Positive thoughts