“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don’t believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world are
the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can’t find them, make them.”
- George Bernard Shaw -
“Your circumstances may be uncongenial,
but they shall not remain so if you only perceive
an ideal and strive to reach it.
You cannot travel within and stand still without.”
- James Allen -
“Most of us can learn to live in
perfect comfort on higher levels of power.
Everyone knows that on any given day
there are energies slumbering in him which
the incitements of that day do not call forth.
Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.
It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy
that are ordinarily not called upon – deeper and deeper strata of
explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep.
The human individual usually lives far within his limits.”
- William James -
“The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are;
first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.”
- Thomas Edison -
“Some men go through life absolutely miserable because,
despite the most enormous achievement,
they just didn’t do one thing—like the architect who didn’t build St Paul’s.
I didn’t quite build St Paul’s,
but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.”
- Lord Thorneycroft
“There is one quality that one must possess to win,
and that is definiteness of purpose,
the knowledge of what one wants,
and a burning desire to possess it.”
- Napoleon Hill -
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing.
Action always generates inspiration.
Inspiration seldom generates action.
- Frank Tibolt -
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie -
Suzy’s daisy No kind action ever stops with itself.
One kind action leads to another.
Good example is followed.
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions,
and the roots spring up and make new trees.
The greatest work that kindness does to others is that
it makes them kind themselves.
- Amelia Earhart -
Universe There’s only one corner of the
universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self.
- Aldous Huxley -
