General Quotes

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”

“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”

“Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.”

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

“Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.”

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”

“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”

“Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.”

“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”

“We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.”