Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal, a commitment to excellence , that will enable you to attain the success you seek. ― Mario Andretti When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible. ― Howard…
The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause. ― Baltasar Gracián Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ― Spanish Proverb Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another’s prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. ―…
Respect is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique. — Annie Gottlieb and Respect requires empathy, the capacity to anticipate and understand the feelings of others. It requires consideration. — Deborah Norville Why? Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does…
Don’t be so humble – you are not that great. ― Golda Meir. And To lead the people, walk behind them. — Lao Tzu Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. — Cherry Nguyen We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair.…
It’s a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity. ― Richard Yates If you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone. ― Richard…
We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas. ― Noam Chomsky Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. ― Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called “the father of…
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. ― Federico García Lorca And: Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. ― John Heywood Why? Desire creates power. ― Raymond Holliwell How? Ignore what a man desires, and you ignore the very source of his power.…
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ― Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. His proposition that all species of life have descended from common…
Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car. ― Garrison Keillor. One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don’t read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they…
There’s a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at. ― Richard Prior And I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing. ― Richard Prior Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style,…
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. ― Donald Trump. How? Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ― Lao Tzu And: Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of…
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. ― Leonardo da Vinci. I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is…
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ― Arthur Conan Doyle It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. ― Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL was a…
Don’t judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was…
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. ― Jean Jacques Rousseau. There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened. ― Jean Jacques Rousseau. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the…
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. ― Bertrand Russell. and Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ― Bertrand Russell Bertrand…
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. ― George MacDonald There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection. ― George MacDonald George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet and Christian…
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. ― Isaac Newton. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being… This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as…