Man thinking

The great use of a life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

Man thinking

To look is one thing. To see what you look at is another. To understand what you see is a third. To learn from what you understand is still something else. But to act on what you learn is all that really matters, isn’t it?

Man thinking

The clock of life is wound but once
And no man has the power
To tell just where the ends will stop
At late or early hour.

Man thinking

There is a mistaken notion prevailing among some parents that discipline is the same thing as punishment. It is not. Discipline comes from a Latin word meaning ‘to teach’. The best discipline is that which teaches, not the kind that hurts.
Everyone ought to fear to die until he has done something that will always live.

Man thinking

Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than to build up a habit of indecision. If you’re wallowing in indecision, you certainly can’t act-and action is the basis os success.
A determined man can do more with a rusty wrench than a loafer with all the tools in a machine shop.

Man thinking

A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.

Man thinking

If it costs you a dollar to make a friend Keep the dollar if it costs you a friend to make a dollar keep the friend.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Man thinking

“The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the past-in whatever form, whether, of literature, of art, institutions, that mind is inscribed. Books are the best type of the influence of the past, and perhaps we shall get at the truth-learn the amount of this influence more conveniently-by considering their value alone.”

Man thinking

“The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globu