In strength training, it is resistance combined with repetition that builds muscle. In life, it is the exact same combination that builds results. Like an athlete on a strict physical regimen, put yourself in the arena of life on a continual basis. Once you commit to doing this, you will be amazed at what you begin to achieve in short order.
—Mike Hazell
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We are sent into this world with bills of credit, yet we seldom draw on them to their full extent. —Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1757, by Joshua Reynolds; Public Domain) We live up to our...
A masterpiece is created by the aggregate of thousands of small, simple, planned strokes. Greatness is accomplished by the aggregate of thousands of small, simple, planned actions. —Mike Hazell...
America has always believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It has acted upon this belief, it has advanced (the cause of) human happiness, and it has...
It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable. —Cicero, 106-43 B.C. (Image licensed by Penn Wealth) Don’t allow the surroundings to shape your...
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. —Robert Browning (1888, by Herbert Rose Barraud; Public Domain)
He that can have patience can have what he will. —Benjamin Franklin (1778, by Joseph Duplessis; Public Domain) Of course, waiting patiently without taking action will bring us only despair....
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not cease to be true simply because it is not accepted by many. —Baruch Spinoza, Enlightenment philosopher (Image...
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)
Conceit is God’s gift to little men. —Bruce Fairchild Barton (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
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)
Ideas without action aren’t ideas. They’re regrets. —Steve Jobs (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
Anyone can work when every stroke of their hand brings down the fruit rattling from the tree to the ground; but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement, by the power of...
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...
Whatever you decide to focus your life on, be the benchmark against which others will be measured. —Mike Hazell (Image by Dan Fador via Pixabay)
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)
There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind. —C.S. Lewis (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
