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.
As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.
I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, 'How would you like to be the host of the Daily Show?' I get out the car, and I didn't have legs. You know in those movies where there's an explosion? But instead of the sound of the explosion, you hear the silence. That's literally what happened.
No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.
Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
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