William Feather Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

William Feather

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.

William Feather

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

William Feather

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

William Feather

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

William Feather

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

William Feather

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

William Feather

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

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When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

William Feather

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

William Feather

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

William Feather

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

William Feather

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

William Feather

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

William Feather

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

William Feather

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

William Feather

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

William Feather

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

William Feather

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

William Feather

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

William Feather

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

William Feather

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

William Feather

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

William Feather

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

William Feather

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

William Feather

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feather

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

William Feather

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

William Feather

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

William Feather

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

William Feather

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.

William Feather

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

William Feather

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

William Feather

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

William Feather

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

William Feather