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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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. — Rumi, 13th century Persian poet (Image licensed by Penn Wealth Pub.)
Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything. — Robert Rubin (Image licensed by Penn Wealth Pub.)
The happiness of one in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of their passions. — Alfred Lord Tennyson (by George Frederic Watts; Public Domain)
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly...
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. — Voltaire (1724, by Nicolas de Largillière; Public Domain) The more we accept this, the better equipped we become—both mentally...
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. — Jonas Salk (Image licensed by Penn Wealth Pub.)
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. — Margaret Thatcher (Public Domain) Every time I listen to a “brilliant economist” on the business networks, I try and...
The tendency to go to excess seems to stem from something inherent in human nature, as does the remarkable failure to draw lessons from past experience. — Robert Rubin (Image licensed by Penn...
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. — Ernest Hemingway (1939, writing “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” photo by Lloyd Arnold; Public Domain)
Love work. Turn a deaf ear to slander. Be considerate in correcting others. Do not be taken up by trifles. Do not resent plain speaking. Meet offenders half-way. Be thorough in thought. Have...
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. — Joseph Addison (by Sir Godfrey Kneller; Public Domain) …And if any of the...
When you’re testing to see how deep the water is, never use two feet. — Benjamin Franklin (1778, by Joseph Duplessis; Public Domain)
I got lost but look what I found. — Irving Berlin (Image licensed by Penn Wealth Pub.) Sometimes we need to give ourselves permission to deviate from our planned path. We exert so much energy...
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. — Henry Ward Beecher (by Mathew Brady; Public Domain)
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it. — Margaret Thatcher...
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. — George Washington (Image Licensed by Penn Wealth Pub.)
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. — Benjamin Disraeli (1878, by Cornelius Jabez Hughes; Public Domain)
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass will sway it from the truth and wreck the argosy. — Walter Scott (1830, by Sir John Watson Gordon; Public Domain)
Be friendly with everybody. When you have friends, you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It...
The law of work does seem utterly unfair—but there it is, and nothing can change it; the higher the pay in enjoyment one gets out of it, the higher shall be their pay in money also. — Mark Twain...
