Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
Joyce BrothersRead
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Interpretation
Success requires recognizing that failure is a natural and beneficial part of the journey.
This quote emphasizes that failure should not be seen as a negative experience but rather as an essential element of the road to success. By adopting a mindset that views failure as a valuable lesson, individuals can grow, learn, and ultimately achieve their goals more effectively.
In practice
During a motivational speech to students about the importance of resilience.
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.
Don't always try to be popular. It isn't possible for everyone to like you. It's far more important for you to like yourself. And when you respect yourself, strangely, you get more respect than when you court it from others.
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second
I didn't go into the Hall of Fame until I was a Hall of Famer. Three times I had been there, I never stepped foot inside.
Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
Do you know how many athletes go broke three years after they stop playing? I want to help them hold on to their money. I mean, I know about budgets.
When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.
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