Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, ‘Why should I tell it?’

Johann K. Lavater
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

John Tudor
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde
Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion
No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers
Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.

Will Rogers
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

Arnold Toynbee
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can’t. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
Honore Gabriel Riquet

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Nigel Lawson

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
John Mason Brown

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
Steve Forbes

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
Francois Fenelon

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.
Robert Grosseteste

Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
Jack Kingston

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you’re going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.
Pete du Pont

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
Philip Massinger

“Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.”-Euripides

“The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.”-Homer

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.- Mother Teresa

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.- Albert Einstein

Talent must have memory; genius don’t require it. (Josh Billings)

Genius learns from nature; talent from books. (Josh Billings)

Men of genius are scarce, but men of genius who use their genius for the benefit of the world are scarcer. (Josh Billings )

Genius is nothing else than a great aptitude for patience. (George-Louis de Buffon)

Genius is bound to be indulgent. It should know human errors so well—has, with its large luminous forces, such errors itself when it deigns to be human, that, where others may scorn, genius should only pity. (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant. (François-René de Chateaubriand)