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Quotes by William Feather - (47 quotes)

William Feather - From the Aging category:

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Aging category:

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Ambition category:

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

William Feather - From the Ambition category:

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Appreciation category:

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

William Feather - From the Books category:

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Business category:

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)

William Feather - From the Commerce category:

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)

William Feather - From the Concentration category:

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Criticism category:

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

William Feather - From the Discipline category:

If we do not discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Effort category:

Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Effort category:

Few of us get anything without working for it. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Expectation category:

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

William Feather - From the Failure category:

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Finishing category:

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Gender category:

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Goodness category:

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Happiness category:

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Happiness category:

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Ideas category:

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Impossibilities category:

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

William Feather - From the Intellect category:

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

William Feather - From the Joy category:

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Leadership category:

He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Life category:

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Money category:

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Money category:

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Money category:

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Obligation category:

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

William Feather - From the Obligation category:

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

William Feather - From the Peace category:

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

William Feather - From the Pleasure category:

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Prayer category:

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Preparation category:

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

William Feather - From the Problems category:

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)

William Feather - From the Progress category:

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

William Feather - From the Prosperity category:

Wealth flows from energy and ideas. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Questions category:

Why, when I am in special need of help, is the good deed usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Quotations category:

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)

William Feather - From the Religion category:

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)

William Feather - From the Repetition category:

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)

William Feather - From the Rewards category:

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Success category:

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

William Feather - From the Success category:

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)

William Feather - From the Truth category:

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children. (William Feather)

William Feather - From the Work category:

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