You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
—Robertson Davies
…So many of us go through so much of our lives being shaped, pushed, prodded, and even defined by the the gallery surrounding us. We put way too much stock in their feedback. Instead, set your sights on a grand vision which energizes you and fills you with passion. Don’t worry about the critics; chart your own path and forge ahead!
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way. — Josh Billings (Public Domain) …And even then, after the facts are laid bare, odds are good they will still blame the...
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right thing, but enjoy the right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love...
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. — William E. Gladstone (1892, by Samuel Alexander Walker; Public Domain) Well intentioned or not, how...
The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without. — Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe...
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point....
I never vote for anyone. I always vote against. — WC Fields (1938, by CBS Radio; Public Domain)
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. — Albert Einstein (1921, by Ferdinand Schmutzer; Public Domain)
There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little. — Andy Grove, semiconductor pioneer (Creative Commons) It is so easy to fall into the trap; to get bogged down by the chaff...
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass. — Robert Collier, founder...
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old. — Mark Twain (1907, by A.F. Bradley; Public Domain)
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. — Lord Byron (1813, Public Domain)
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1879, by Armstrong & Co.; Public Domain)
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. — Horace (65 BC – 8 BC; Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
I’ve always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there. — Bob Hope (Public Domain)
Never lend money to someone who must borrow money to pay the interest. — A Swiss banker’s first rule (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
What one can be, they must be. This need we call self-actualization. — Abraham Maslow (Image licensed by Penn Wealth) Self-actualization: the achievement of one’s potential through creativity,...
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. — Aeschylus (Greek dramatist; soldier in the Battle of Marathon, BC 490; Public Domain)
Wealth flows from energy and ideas. — William Feather (Image licensed by Penn Wealth) It seems so simple, right? But consider the large percentage of people who have let life hammer them down; who...
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. — Samuel Johnson (1772, by Joshua...
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. — Oscar Wilde (1889, by Napoleon Sarony; Public Domain)
