(1476 quotes found)
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
C.S. Lewis
“To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.”
Dalai Lama
“Get thee a good husband and use him as he uses thee”
William Shakespeare
“Sometimes the best way to be useful is to get out of somebody's way.”
Ashleigh Brilliant
“One that lies three thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard and thrice beaten.”
“A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts”
Coleman Cox
“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
Henry David Thoreau
“There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it”
Napoleon Hill
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”
William Morris