George Horace Lorimer Quotes

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.

Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

Give fools the first and women the last word.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.

When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.

When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.