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An education isnt how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. Its being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you dont. Its knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and its knowing how to use the information you get.
-William Feather
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Ability
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
-William Feather, The Treasure of Franchard
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Age
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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
-William Feather
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Apathy
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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn
-William Feather
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Deception/Lying
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When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
-William Feather
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Discipline
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If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.
-William Feather
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Failure
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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
-William Feather
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Happiness
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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
-William Feather
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
-William Feather
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Help
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Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
-William Feather, The Business of Life
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Inspirational
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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
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Men & Women
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Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
-William Feather
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Money
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A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
-William Feather
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Quotations
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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
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Risk
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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
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Success & Failure
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
-William Feather
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Sunshine
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Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
-William Feather
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Wealth
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The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
-William Feather
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Books by and about William Feather