If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all

Most Americans have great vigor and enthusiasm.They prefer to discipline themselves rather than be disciplined by others.They pride themselves on their independence, their right to make up their own minds.They are prepared to take the initiative, even when there is a risk in doing so. They have cour

What exactly does globalization mean? Concepts related to globalization include internationalization,“multidomestic marketing”, and “multinational or transnational marketing”,suggesting that the basic criterion is transactions across national boundaries. In the marketing and strategic management lit

In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion.When war broke out between Spain and the United States, it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the Insurgents. Garcia was somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of Cuba -

All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries,are easily and cheaply available to all of us within the covers of books but we must know how to avail ourselves of this treasure and how to get the most from it.The most unfortunate people in the world are those w

What then is the work of life? What the business of great men, that pass the stage of the world in seeming triumph as these men we call heroes have done? Is it to grow great in the mouth of fame and take up so many pages in history? Alas! That is no more than making a tale for the reading of posteri

Today is our chance to say thank you for the way you brightened our lives, even though God granted you buthalf a life. We will all feel cheated always that you were taken from us so young, and yet we must learn to be grateful that you came along at all. Only now you are gone do we truly appreciate w

All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up everyday. If we expect that life won’t be perfect, we’ll be able to avoid that impulse to quit. But even ifyou are strong enough to persist the obstacle course of life and work, sometimes you will

First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience of the two people involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. Often the beloved is only a stimulus for

A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as an individual.We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious efforts,the man who never wrongs

People in the United States honor their parents with two special days:Mother&#39s Day,on the second Sunday inMay,and Father&#39s Day,on the third Sunday in June.Mother&#39s Day was proclaimed a day for national observance by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915.Ann Jarvis from Grafton,West Virginia,had

On PunctualityA punctual person is in the habit of doing a thing at the proper time and is never late in keeping an appointment. The unpunctual man，on one hand，never does what he has to do at the proper time. He is always ina hurry and in the end loses both time and his good name. There is a proverb

If you change your mind - from pessimism to optimism - you can change your life.Do you see the glass as half-full rather than half empty?Do you keep your eye upon the doughnut, ot upon the hole?Suddenly these cliches are scientific questions, as researchers scrutinize the power of positive thinking.

Work and PleasureTo be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: “I will take an interest in this or that.” Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great

April DaysDays of witchery, subtly sweet,When every hill and tree finds heart,When winter and spring like lovers meetIn the mist of noon and part -In the April days.Nights when the wood frogs faintly peepOnce - twice - and then are still,And the woodpeckers’ martial voices sweepLike bugle notes from

&quotI was sure that I was to be killed. I became terribly nervous. I fumbled in my pockets to see if ther were any cigarettes, which had escaped their search. I found one and because of my shaking hands, I could barely get it to my lips. But I had no matches, they had taken those. &quotI looked thr

How did a peddler of cheap shirts and fishing rods become the mightiest corporation in America?The short version of Wal-Mart’s rise to glory goes something like this:In 1979 it racked up a billion dollars in sales. By 1993 it did that much business in a weekby 2001 it could do it in a day.It’s a stu

There is no month in the whole year, in which nature wears a more beautiful appearance than in the month of August! Spring has many beauties,and May is a fresh and blooming month, but the charms of this time of year are enhanced by their contrast with the winter season.August has no such advantage.

Simplicity is an uprightness of soul that has no reference to self it is different from sincerity, and itis a still higher virtue. We see many people who are sincere, without being simple they only wish to passfor what they are, and they are unwilling to appear what they are not they are always thin

Why are so many people so anxious to get away from the small town or village where they brought up,and to make for the big cities? They usually describe their hometown as &quotboring&quot or &quotdead&quot,or the harshest criticism of all as&quotprovincial&quot.If we examine the question from a dist

Self-control is essential to happiness and usefulness. It is the master of all the virtues,and has its root in self-respect. Let a man yield to his impulses and passions, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedom.It is the self-discipline of a man that enables him to pursue success with sup

A Chief Executive officer is not necessarily someone who has had a lot of formal training.So, I doubt moreschooling would help you climb up that ladder of success.Maybe you should try and change your work habits or character. You cannot just sit around in an organization waiting for people to promot

I was up the next morning before the October sunrise, and away through the wild and the woodland. The rising of the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of it peeping down the spread of light, he raised his shoulder heavily over the edge of gray mountain and wavering length of upland. Beneath his ga

Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circle of ripples.As Stevenson has said, being happy is a duty.There is no exact definition of the word happiness. Happy people are happy for all sorts of reasons.The key is not wealth or physical well-being, since we f

Madam President (of Finland),Mr. President (of Namibia),Excellencies, Ladies and Gentelemen,I am deeply honored to welcome you all.Never before have the leaders of so many nations come together in a single Assembly.This is a unique event.A unique opportunity. And therefore a unique responsibility.Yo

What is leadership? Its qualities are difficult to define.But they are not so difficult to identify.Leaders don’t force other people to go along with them.They bring them along. Leaders get commitment fromothers by giving it themselves,by building an environment that encourages creativity, and by op

Once a circle missed a wedge.The circle wanted to be whole，so it went around looking for its missing piece.But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly，it admired the flowers along the way.It chatted with worms.It enjoyed the sunshine.It found lots of different pieces，but

Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very careful about lying, otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught, once caught, you can never again be, in the eyes of the pure and the good, what you were before.Many a young person has injured himself permenently throuth a single clumsy and ill-fin

It’s great to be here and have a chance to share some of my excitement with you.I got involved with computers at 18.And the computer was a very limited teletype that had to be connected through a phone lineup to a mainframe like computer, but my friends and I became fascinated with understanding wha

Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all.The sweetest in the gale is heardAnd sore must be the stormThat could abash the little birdThat kept so many warm.I&#39ve heard it in the chillest land,And on the strangest seaYet, nev