Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor.

Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we
who fail to prevent them must read more

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we
who fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what
we say or what we do, but what read more

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what
we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions
come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic)
rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will
sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the
foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not
excellent, it won't be profitable read more

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not
excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business
for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?.

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.