You should exercise unrelenting discipline over your thought patterns. Cultivate only productive attitudes…. You are the product of everything you put into your body and mind.
—I Ching (Book of Changes) #27, 2nd Century BC
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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)
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon....
You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think. — Sean Connery (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint...
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty. —Henri Frédéric Amiel (1888; Public Domain)
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. —Buddha (image licensed by Penn Wealth)
