If you ask me which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do you imagine I shall answer pride, or luxury, or ambition, or egotism? No; I shall answer indolence. Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest. Indeed, all good principles must stagnate without mental activity.
—Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann (Public Domain)
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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)
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored or brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful than this—that man is the master of his thought,...
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. — Ovid (photo by Ettore Ferrari; Creative Commons)
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. — Paulo Coelho (Image Licensed by Penn Wealth)
I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality. — Bob Hope (with crew, meeting General Patton in WWII; Public Domain)
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. — Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1757, by Joshua Reynolds; Public Domain)
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing...
The ability to convert ideas into concrete things is the secret of distinguishable success. — Henry Ward Beecher (by Matthew Brady; Public Domain) Let’s face it, many simply never begin to...
Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do. — William Ellery Channing (by Oswald Chambers; Public Domain)
If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off. — Catherine the Great (Empress of Russia, 1762-1796; Public Domain) Under Catherine II, who came to power through a coup d’état (which she...
