William Feather Quotes
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The right man can make a good job out of any job.
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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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Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.
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Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.
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Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
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It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.
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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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Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.
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If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
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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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The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.
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The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
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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.
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We all know that the nation can't divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that's how we get ahead.
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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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A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.
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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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We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
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Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.
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Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
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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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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.