The reason most people
never reach their goals is that
they don’t define them, or ever seriously
consider them as believable or achievable.
Winners can tell you where they are going,
what they plan to do along the way,
and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
- Denis Watley -
What gems of painting or
statuary are in the world of art,
or what flowers are in the world of nature,
are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
It is delightful to transport
one’s self into the spirit of the past,
to see how a wise man has thought before us.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
A maxim is the exact
and noble expression of an
important and indisputable truth.
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence;
when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
- Joseph Joubert -
It is delightful to transport
one’s self into the spirit of the past,
to see how a wise man has thought before us,
and to what glorious height we have at last reached.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Time is of no
account with great thoughts,
which are as fresh today as when
they first passed through their authors’ minds ages ago.
- Samuel Smiles -
A well-cultivated mind is,
so to speak, made up of all the
minds of preceding ages; it is only
one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
- Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle -
Always have a book at hand,
in the parlor, on the table, for the family;
a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote,
of sound maxims and truthful apothegms.
It will impress on your own mind a thousand
valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand
lessons of truth and duty.
Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.
- Tryon Edwards -
