He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.
It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
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