In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.
It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged the...
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out.
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
True health infuses positive energy in the mind, body and spirit; it is a main focus in my life.
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.
I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.
It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.
Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.
I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
