My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world and droop. Sick of its business of its pleasures tired how gracious how benign is solitude.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed princely or lowly it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

The best people renounce all for one goal the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

A lot of women these days a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap hideous 'girl power' sort of fad which I think is pretty benign at best but at worst I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

When we seek to discover the best in others we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

As a mom I know it is my responsibility and no one else's to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves whether it's shyness insecurity anxiety whether it's a physical block and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

We think the Mac will sell zillions but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

One way or another we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life and dedicate ourselves to that.

When the best leader's work is done the people say 'We did it ourselves.'