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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

If you eat well, you can transform your life.

Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

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

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

If we develop concern for other people’s welfare, share other people’s suffering, and help them, ultimately we will benefit. If we think only of ourselves and forget about others, ultimately we will lose. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

Everything you do to improve your physical well-being will have a positive impact on how good you feel about yourself.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

It’s good to be just plain happy, it’s a little better to know that you’re happy; but to understand that you’re happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I’ve practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.