Never promise more than you can perform.
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Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
Interpretation
Live each day to its fullest, as if it were your final opportunity.
This quote emphasizes the importance of cherishing every day as if it were your last. It serves as a reminder to appreciate the present moment and to make meaningful choices, as life is unpredictable and fleeting. By treating each day with such significance, we can cultivate a deeper sense of gratitude and purpose in our lives.
In practice
In a motivational speech about making the most of life.
Never promise more than you can perform.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become richer, our judgement better, and our world is more right. It is not love that is blind, it is only the unnoticing eye that cannot see the real qualities of people.
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
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