“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste”
- Henry Ford
August 2012
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“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
- Thomas A. Edison
“Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain”
- Henry Ford
“Things do not change; we change.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can’t read and write, but those who can’t learn, unlearn and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
“The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.”
- Napoleon Hill
“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” — Dr. Wayne Dyer
“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.”
– Marcia Wieder
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.”
– Ronald Reagan
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.”
— Tim Ferriss
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.”
— Brian Tracy
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
—Stephen R. Covey
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Therefore, we had better aim at something high.
~ Henry David Thoreau
“To yourself and to all those depending upon you, keep your self-respect.”
– John Wooden
