Quotes About Engagement

After such an introduction, I can hardly wait to hear what I'm going to say.

The recipe for a good speech includes some shortening.

A bore is a man who spends so much time talking about himself that you can't talk about yourself.

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. ... You might not be home.

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.

When you stop talking, you've lost your customer.

The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

The most important office is that of private citizen.

Politics is but the common pulse beat.

Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10,000 people. The hardest is with one.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.