Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived