The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Thomas Carlyle Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Edward Bulwer-Lytton Look within, for within is the wellspring of [...]
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 [...]
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do. Menander Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all. Juvenal Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. Abd-el-Kadar If we do not plant knowledge [...]
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Robert Collier The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Frank Loyd Wright A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. Elbert [...]