O. Henry Quotes
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best
When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.
In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.
Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.
Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.