As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Interpretation
Actions speak louder than words, especially as we age.
This quote by Andrew Carnegie highlights the importance of observing people's actions rather than merely listening to their words. As one matures, thereβs a tendency to value demonstrable behavior over promises or statements, implying that true character is revealed through actions.
In practice
In a discussion about trust in relationships, one might say this quote to emphasize the need for trustworthy actions.
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.
The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it made sense to me. And I think it was kind of pointed out that you know if you were allergic to strawberries, you wouldn't eat strawberries. And that made sense to me.
I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.
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