Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point. — Christian Nestell Bovee Concentration Copy Share Image
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. — Christian Nestell Bovee Action Copy Share Image
Give me the character and I will forecast the event. — Christian Nestell Bovee Character Copy Share Image
An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims. — Christian Nestell Bovee Aim Copy Share Image
The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt. — Christian Nestell Bovee Beloved Copy Share Image
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time. — Christian Nestell Bovee Inspirational Copy Share Image
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. — Christian Nestell Bovee Affection Copy Share Image
Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation. — Christian Nestell Bovee Hard Copy Share Image
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee Adversity Copy Share Image
A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Charity Copy Share Image
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ. — Christian Nestell Bovee Alike Copy Share Image
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful… — Christian Nestell Bovee Ambition Copy Share Image
God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their… — Christian Nestell Bovee Ascetic Copy Share Image
In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Acquaintance Copy Share Image
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when… — Christian Nestell Bovee Break Copy Share Image
The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity. — Christian Nestell Bovee Artificial Copy Share Image
The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended… — Christian Nestell Bovee Determine Copy Share Image
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. — Christian Nestell Bovee Admire Copy Share Image
Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich… — Christian Nestell Bovee Competence Copy Share Image
It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Accustomed Copy Share Image
Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes… — Christian Nestell Bovee Brave Copy Share Image
God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in… — Christian Nestell Bovee All things Copy Share Image
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches… — Christian Nestell Bovee Acceptable Copy Share Image
No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in… — Christian Nestell Bovee Belittle Copy Share Image
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Broken Copy Share Image
The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Admiration Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes… — Christian Nestell Bovee Action Copy Share Image
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity. — Christian Nestell Bovee Activity Copy Share Image
Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury. — Christian Nestell Bovee Freedom Copy Share Image
Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master. — Christian Nestell Bovee Admitted Copy Share Image
