William Feather Quotes

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.

Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

The way to get ahead is to start now.

I have won every argument I ever had with myself.

A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.