William Feather Quotes
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Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
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Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
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We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
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In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.
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Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.
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The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
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The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
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It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.
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Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.
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Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
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One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.
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Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.
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A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.
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Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.
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Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
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The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
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Brains aren't everything, but they're important.
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Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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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.
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The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.
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A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.
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Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.
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We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.