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Read ArticleHumor Friday
Do the right thing; it will gratify some people and astonish the rest. —Mark Twain (Public Domain)
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Read ArticleAdmiral Byrd on Untapped Potential
Few, during their lifetime, come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength which are never used. —Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American aviator and...
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Read ArticleNo Matter What, Keep Moving Forward
When it all feels pointless, when it feels as though working tirelessly doesn’t seem to bring anything to fruition, remember that everything we do moves forward with us and has an ultimate impact....
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Read ArticleMichelangelo on Aspiration
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark. —Michelangelo (Public Domain)
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Read ArticlePlan and Execute, but do so with a Thoughtful Patience
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. —Sir Isaac Newton (1689, by Sir Godfrey Kneller; Public Domain) I once had a boss who considered himself the quintessential...
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Read ArticleHumor Friday—Business Edition
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do. —Jean de La Bruyère (Public Domain)
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Read ArticleTwo Roads: Focus and Determination, or Doubt and Ambiguity
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. —Adam Smith (the Muir portrait; Public Domain)
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Read ArticleTraversing Sadness
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. —Khalil Gibran (Image Licensed) It is difficult to keep sadness in perspective when we find ourselves shrouded in its dreary fog. Through the cloud of...
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Read ArticleFr. de Chardin on the Adventure of Love
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Fair Use)
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Read ArticleFind Your Inspiration and Use it to Create Great Works
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman. —Jean de La Bruyère...
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Read ArticleHumor Friday—Economists' Edition
The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions. —Paul Samuelson, economist (Image Licensed)
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Read ArticleForge Ahead with Your Plan in Good Times and Bad, but Especially Bad
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. —Ludwig van Beethoven (1820, by Joseph Karl Stieler; Public Domain)
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Read ArticleForge Ahead into the New Decade with both Vision and an Action Mindset
Vision without action is daydreaming; action without vision is a nightmare. —Chinese Proverb (Shaolin temple; Image Licensed)
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Read ArticleMaking Sense out of Pain and Suffering
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. —Matthew Henry (1707; Public Domain)
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Read ArticleHumor Friday—Holiday Edition
I just got back from a pleasure trip—I took my mother-in-law to the airport. —Henny Youngman (1957; Public Domain)
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Read ArticleChange when Needed; Stay the Course Otherwise
Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking of it merely for its own sake. —Robert Moses (1938, by C.M. Stieglitz; Public Domain) Change can be difficult, which is why so many...
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Read ArticleThe Light of Truth
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. —C.S. Lewis (Image Licensed)
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Read ArticleWill Rogers on Success
If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing. —Will Rogers (1922; Public Domain)
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Read ArticleHumor (not really) Friday
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. —Will Rogers (1922; Public Domain)
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Read ArticleControl Yourself, or Circumstances Will
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from...
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