Success and enthusiasm (quote)
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
(Winston Churchill)
On anger (quote)
“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. They can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by them.”
(Epictetus)
On anger (quote)
“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. They can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by them.”
(Epictetus)
Process and product of change (quote)
“To be in process of change is not an evil, any more than to be the product of change is a good.”
(Marcus Aurelius)
Staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing (quote)
“If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall — if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then shall the good life be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.”
(Marcus Aurelius)
True test of intelligence (quote)
"The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how to behave when we don’t know what to do."
(John Holt)Going your own way (quote)
“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”
(Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Feeling good (quote)
“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.”
(Jerry West)
Fanatics (quote)
“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”
(Winston Churchill)
Routine and ambition (quote)
“Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.”
(W.H. Auden)
Daily routine (quote)
“The secret to your success is found in your daily routine.”
(John C. Maxwell)
Nature of things (quote)
“One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.”
(Martin Buber)
Immortality and Sunday afternoons (quote)
“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
(Susan Ertz)
Immortality and Sunday afternoons (quote)
“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
(Susan Ertz)
Time's brevity (quote)
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
(Jean de La Bruyère)
Time flies (quote)
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
(Michael Altshuler)
Wishing and planning (quote)
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
Absorb what is useful (quote)
“Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.”
(Bruce Lee)
The majority (quote)
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
(Mark Twain)