"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."

Long, Lazarus | Self-confidence | 8 bookmarks

"Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."

Long, Lazarus | Children | 1 bookmarks

"Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law."

Twain, Mark | Family | 5 bookmarks

"Familiarity breeds contempt; and children."

Twain, Mark | Familiarity | 3 bookmarks

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark | Facts | 10 bookmarks

"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."

Twain, Mark | Exercise | 4 bookmarks

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."

Twain, Mark | Example | 2 bookmarks

"There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!"

Twain, Mark | Example | 6 bookmarks

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark | Education | 9 bookmarks

"Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

Twain, Mark | Duty | 5 bookmarks