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

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.

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.