69 quotes found
“Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.”
“To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.”
“Learn from the mistakes of others- you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.”
“A prudent person profits from personal experience a wise one from the experience of others.”
“If ... you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.”
“I studied the lives of great men and famous women and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand with everything they had of energy and enthusias...”
“It's true that heroes are inspiring but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?”
“I believe in recovery and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.”
“My heart is happy my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me.”
“Examine the personality of the mother who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.”
“That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.”
“As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiet...”
“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.”
“As you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.”
“Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.”
“Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush...”
“Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.”
“If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.”
“Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.”
“We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it think some thoughts better than we think catch some inspiration from heights above our own.”
