Speak softly and carry a big stick
You can rage yourself into exhaustion or whisper a warning, but the performance you can expect will always depend on the standards you enforce.
What’s the Point of Waiting?
There is a decaying, deadening shallowness that seeps in during all this waiting. There is always something else coming. From year to year and hour to hour there is some new horizon promising that when you get to the top of that hill, then you’ll be happy.
Confess and Prosper
Appearances are deceiving. What is concealed is eventually revealed, and your sum total will be a loss of trust.
You are not a brand
If we’re honest, most of us are tormented by the fear that, “If I don’t publicize who I am, no one will know, and I’ll never become what I could have been.”
Working with a fool cuts off your legs
A fool will fail to grasp social complexities or care about anyone’s feelings except her own. You will find yourself stirring up a storm of violence on account of a lack of tact.