As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody
else has thought.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody
else has thought.

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have read more

champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have no use for helicopters!

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up read more

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could
do it so well that no one read more

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could
do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, read more

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.