Conceit is God's gift to little men.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

When you're through changing, you're through.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the worlds progress has come out of such loneliness.

When you have something for breakfast youre not going to be starving by lunch.

Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do thats really the take home message for teenage girls.

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day so you dont overeat.

When you are through changing you are through.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation explanation showing observation and supervision.

In good times people want to advertise in bad times they have to.

The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.