Insights on Principles

Always vote for a principle, though you vote along, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost………John Quincy Adams

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions – such a man is a mere article of the world’s furniture – a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being – an echo, not a voice…….Henry Frederic Amiel

Many people are liberal in principle, reluctant in practice……..John Burgess

He who merely knows the right principles, is not equal to him who loves them……..Confucius

Men of principle are always bold, but those who are bold are not always men of principle….Confucius

A precedent embalms a principle……….Benjamin Disraeli

We have always found that, if our principles are right, the area over which they applied did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table…….Henry Ford

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world….Immanuel Kant

Many men do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing…….Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Its the business of little minds to shrink, ut he whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death……Thomas Paine

In life it is possible merely to throw a heap of stones together, but this pile is not beautiful. We pyramid to the heights only when we lay stone on stone according to a beautiful plan. If we have no faith in the principles with which we build life, we are defeated……W.N.Thomas

Thoughts on Proacrastination

“But” is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the buts that could be said…….Edward Lytton

By the street of By-and-By, one arrives at the home of Never…….Miguel De Cervantes

Postponement: the sincerest form of rejection……..Robert Half

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible……..George Horace Lorimer

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday……….Donald Marquis

While we are postponing, life speeds by………..Soneca

Proverbs on Self

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self......Aristotle

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - Learn to manage and control yourself.....William Boetcker

Never mind what the "people" think of you! They may overestimate or underestimate you! Until they discover your real worth, your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. You can succeed if nobody else believes it; but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself........William Boetcker

Every main is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.......John Chrysostom

Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally. It is the mental concept that he externalizes with the help of paint and canvas. If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see? How do you appear to yourself? Is the picture one you think worth painting? You are what you think you are? You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind. What you are advertises what you think.......Thomas Dreier

We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves...Rudolf Driekurs

The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself......Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make the most to yourself, for that is all there is to you.........Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before an egg can grow into a chicken, it must first totally cease to be an egg. Each think must lose its original identity before it can be something else. Therefore, before a thing is transformed into something else, it must come to a level of no-thingness........Perle Epstein

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you......B.C.Forbes

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals......Benjamin Franklin

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give........Kahlil Gibran

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.......Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings towards other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you are not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.....Sydney Harris

What lives behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared with what lies within us....Oliver Wendell Holmes

Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world.....Helen Keller

Just as you are unconsciously influenced by outside advertisement, announcement, and appeal, so you can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or alound, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind......Grenville Kleiser

We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves........Mark Twain

Know Thyself.......Socrates

Quotes on Speaking

Thought, after all my writing, let me put up some proverbs of wise people spoken over the ages on the topic of "Speaking". Hope you enjoy the various perspectives offered.

What is said is more important than who said it ……Anonymous

Speak softly and sweetly. If your words are soft and sweet, they won’t be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them. ………Anonymous

Why is it that those who have something to say can’t say it, while those who have nothing to say keep saying it? ……..Anonymous

To speak well supposes a habit of attention which shows itself in the thought; by language we learn to think and above all to develop thought. ......Carl Victor De Bonstetten

Speech is the gift of all, but thought of few. …..Cato

If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called upon to repeat it. ……Calvin Coolidge

A man who cannot speak but he judges and reveals himself. With his will, or against his will, he draws his portrait to the eye of others by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it ……Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you say what you think, don’t expect to hear only what you like ….. Malcolm Forbes

Speech is a picture of the mind .….John Ray

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is ..…. Publilius Syrus

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say …..Richard Whately

Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it …… James Russell Lowell

If nobody spoke unless he head somethin to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech........Somerset Maugham