You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Sometimes it’s more about the journey than the destination.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a community – and a culture.
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.
We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
I have an impact and people look up to me now. It’s more than the money.
Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
More law, less justice.
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
Sometimes a villain is very quiet – it makes them more deadly, more intellectual.
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Fortune is like glass – the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
It is nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
There’s no more important consumer product today than a cell phone.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it’s bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.
If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.’
Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person – not just an employee – are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.
The key to victory lies more in manipulation and cooperation than in exceptional personal skills.
The less men think, the more they talk.
I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.
The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you’re certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you’re gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.
If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You’re not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you’re at peace with yourself. Learning life’s lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
I feel as though, if you’re able to control your dreams, you have more power and control over your mind, like you could reach more areas of your mind. Therefore, I feel like it creates the ability for you to achieve more things in reality.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.
Getting to the top is not so easy; staying there is more difficult.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
