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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. —Samuel Butler, British poet (by Charles Gogin; Public Domain)

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the things we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on...

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. —Helen Keller (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is, in reality, a universal nuisance. —Baruch Spinoza, Enlightenment philosopher (1665, by...

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character. —Horace Greeley (Image licensed by Penn Wealth) Fortunately, character also happens to be...

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. —Samuel Butler, British poet (by Charles Gogin; Public Domain)

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. —Bruce Fairchild Barton (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. —William James (Image licensed by Penn Wealth) Furthermore, write down the attributes, the traits, the style of your ideal self, and review these points...

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. —Samuel Johnson (1772, by Sir Joshua Reynolds; Public Domain)