The person who doesn’t read is no better off than the person who can’t read.
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people...
Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth -- a knowledge of things as they are.
No matter how long we’ve walked life’s pathway to mediocrity, we can always choose to switch paths. Always. It’s never too late. We can find our voice.
My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her.
My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgm...
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.
It’s not enough to dream. It’s not enough to try. It’s not enough to set goals or climb ladders. It’s not enough to value. The effort has to be based on practical realities that produce the result. On...
If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choi...
I have seen the consequences of attempting to shortcut this natural process of growth often in the business world, where executives attempt to buy a new culture of improved productivity, quality, mora...
How Many People on Their Deathbed Wish They’d Spent More Time at the Office?
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love. MOTHER TERESA
By accepting people you’re not condoning their weakness or agreeing with their opinion; you’re simply affirming their intrinsic worth.
But you can’t change the fruit without changing the root.
Because their identity and sense of self-worth are wrapped up in their work, their security is vulnerable to anything that happens to prevent them from continuing in it.
Як відзначила Елеонора Рузвельт: Без вашої згоди ніхто не може вас образити. А за словами Ґанді, у нас не можуть відібрати самоповагу, якщо ми самі її не віддамо. Наш добровільний дозвіл, наша згода н...
It is that a meaningful life is not a matter of speed or efficiency. It’s much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done.