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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

When things are going well, be mindful of adversity. When prosperous, be mindful of poverty. When loved, be mindful of thoughtfulness. When respected, be mindful of humility.

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, ‘I’m going to be 30 – oh, what am I going to do?’ Well, use that decade! Use them all!

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

History will judge societies and governments – and their institutions – not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.

It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Why must one love rarely to love well?

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

Having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there’s always something more expensive to buy. Success is really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself.

We are the mirror – As well as the face in it.

I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often, but I’m well preserved.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Now that I see you understand me so well, I will avoid you.

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.

Perfection is lots of little things done well.

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

It happens that once we learn a thing, the motivation to keep it up grows and expands further as well. If you’re going through hell, keep going.

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.