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‘Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.’
Shut close, then, the great fore and aft bulkheads, and prepare to cultivate the habit of a life of “day-tight compartments.”’
best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.
‘Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.’
good thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns.
One step enough for me.
‘Have no anxiety about the morrow’;
‘Live in day-tight compartments.’
“Every day is a new life to a wise man.”
Shut the iron doors on the past and the future. Live in Day-tight Compartments.
analyzed the situation fearlessly and honestly and figured out what was the worst that could possibly happen as a result of this failure.
After figuring out what was the worst that could possibly happen, I reconciled myself to accepting it, if necessary.
From that time on, I calmly devoted my time and energy to trying to improve upon the worst which I had already accepted mentally.
acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.’
‘Businessmen who do not know how to fight worry die young.’
psychosomatic
‘Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.’
a man will devote his time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge.’
problem well stated is a problem half solved.’
‘I find that to keep thinking about our problems beyond a certain point is bound to create confusion and worry. There comes a time when any more investigation and thinking are harmful. There comes a time when we must decide and act and never look back.’
that it is utterly impossible for any human mind, no matter how brilliant, to think of more than one thing at any given time.
‘A certain comfortable security, a certain profound inner peace, a kind of happy numbness, soothes the nerves of the human animal when absorbed in its allotted task.’
trembling palsy of the soul which results from overmastering doubts, hesitations, vacillation and fear …
‘The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or
not.’
Keep busy. The worried person must lose himself in action, lest he wither in despair.
Robert Moore,
Trivialities are at the bottom of most marital unhappiness’;
Let’s not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember ‘Life is too short to be little.’
By the law of averages, it won’t happen.”
‘Let’s examine the record.’ Let’s ask ourselves: ‘What are the chances, according to the law of averages, that this event I am worrying about will ever occur?’
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Teach me neither to cry for the moon nor over spilt milk.’
For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.
Co-operate with the inevitable.
‘The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life, which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long
run.’
a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives.
“Don’t cry over spilt milk!”
‘Our life is what our thoughts make it.’
‘A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.’
‘Much of what we call Evil … can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer’s inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight’
‘If selfish people try to take advantage of you, cross them off your list, but don’t try to get even. When you try to get even, you hurt yourself more than you hurt the other fellow?’
‘never judged men by his like or dislike for them.
this man made the human and distressing mistake of expecting gratitude.
It
is natural for people to forget to be grateful; so, if we go around expecting gratitude, we are headed straight for a lot of heartaches.
The ideal man,’ said Aristotle, ‘takes joy in doing favours for others.’
I had the blues because I had no shoes, Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.’
‘Think and Thank’
