Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.
Since we replaced the compulsory military draft with an all-volunteer force in 1973, our nation has been making decisions about wars without worry over who fights them. I sincerely believe that reinstating the draft would compel the American public to have a stake in the wars we fight as a nation.
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.
I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.
Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?
The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!
It is always a bit hypocritical when a defender who spends the whole game kicking you complains of being kicked.
Certainly anyone who complains of sexism is marked down as humourless.
I'm not someone who complains in any way about how things move forward, unless somebody actually does a really crappy job.
My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity.
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
