Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. —WINSTON CHURCHILL
“Goethe taught, “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“It is much more ennobling to the human spirit to let people judge themselves than to judge them. And”
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. —G. K. CHESTERTON T”
― Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
― Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
“I was appalled at the pervasive ignorance and illiteracy of the common people.”30 This was fifteen years after the discovery of oil; it helps to explain the State Department’s concern about whether the government was spending its money wisely, a concern that would eventually prompt the United States to take a direct hand in running the Kingdom’s affairs.”
― Inside The Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership With Saudi Arabia
― Inside The Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership With Saudi Arabia
“Religious leader David O. McKay taught, “The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.” If you win the battles there, if you settle the issues that inwardly conflict, you feel a sense of peace, a sense of knowing what you’re about. And you’ll find that the public victories—where you tend to think cooperatively, to promote the welfare and good of other people, and to be genuinely happy for other people’s successes—will follow naturally.”
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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