"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."

Adams, Charles Francis | Extra Mile | 1 bookmarks

"Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances."

Adams, Bryan | Thoughts and Thinking | 8 bookmarks

"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express."

Addison, Joseph | Family | 3 bookmarks

"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

Addison, Joseph | Friends and Friendship | 10 bookmarks

"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another."

Aesop | Discontent | 4 bookmarks

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop | Kindness | 10 bookmarks

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo | Action | 13 bookmarks

"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."

Allen, James | Self-improvement | 1 bookmarks

"For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"

Allen, James | Success | 3 bookmarks

"Every day you waste is one you can never make up."

Allen, George | Waste | 2 bookmarks