HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN PAID FOR

THE HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN PAID FOR

Work which one does merely for the sake of earning a living is seldom liked. More often it is disliked, or even hated. When engaged in work, which he loves, a man may labor for an unbelievably long period of hours without becoming fatigued.

 

-Napoleon Hill

Your child is trying to be the best he can

Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out.

 

-Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran

 

 

Victory

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
- Napoleon

I'm not afraid of facts

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

 

-Cynthia Ozick

 

 

Enjoy life

“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.” 

Yesterday is not ours to recover

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but
tomorrow is ours to win or to lose."
 
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Misery or unhappiness is determined

"I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is
determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition." 

- Martha Washington

Success isn't how far you got

Success isn't how far you got, but the
distance you traveled from where you started.
 
- Proverb 

 

In the absence of clearly-defined goals

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

 

-Robert Heinlein

 

 

Joy is not in things

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

 

-Richard Wagner

 

 

To accomplish great things

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

 

-Anatole France

You can't rest on your laurels

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

 

-Barack Obama

 

 

 

When there is no peril

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

-Pierre Corneille

Above all things

Above all things, reverence yourself.

 

-Pythagoras

 

 

You are today

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be
tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
 
- James Allen

Some are born great

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

 

-Daniel J. Boorstin

 

 

 

A joyful life is an individual creation

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

 

-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,

 

 

 

I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger

"Adversity is another way to measure
the greatness of individuals. I never had
a crisis that didn't make me stronger."
- Lou Holtz

If You Have Built Castles

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

 

Henry David Thoreau

 

 

 

What lies before us are small matters..

"What lies behind us, and what lies
before us are small matters
compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson