So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. ~Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879 Men can bear all things [...]
You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. [...]
“Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.” –– Bruce Barton “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure [...]
Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. Thomas Fuller Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. Ralph Waldo Emerson Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and [...]
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: “Leave no stone unturned.” Edward Bulwer Lytton Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? George Eliot If you would create something, you must be something. Johann [...]
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. Voltaire Experience is the child of thought, and [...]