Anger Quotes
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. -Chinese Proverb Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. -Robert Ingersoll Anger: an acid that can do more […]
Ambition Quotes
Ambition is the spur that makes man struggle with destiny. It is heaven’s own incentive to make purpose great and achievement greater. -Donald G. Mitchell If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. -Publilius Syrus (85BC-43BC) A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and […]
Aims Quotes
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. -Tryon Edwards Not failure, but low aim, is crime. -J.R. Lowell Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will much nearer to it, than those whose laziness and despondency make […]
Action Quotes
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. -William J.H. Boetcker A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that only in our easy, simple spontaneous action […]
Achievement Quotes
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. -Woodrow Wilson In every triumph there’s […]
What is Success?
Success is being friendly when another needs a friend, It’s in the cheery words you speak, not in the coins you lend. Success is not alone in skill and deeds of daring great, It’s in the roses that you plant beside your garden gate. Success is in the way you walk the paths of life […]
Whom, then, do I Call Educated?
Take a look at these two quotations; I can’t figure out who said what…and since they’re two different people, did one copy the other? Wikipedia says Isocrates was a student of Socrates, and that Socrates greatly admired Isocrates. Isocrates went on to establish a very successful philosophy school of his own. Anyway, without doing an all out […]
NOW – Poem
If you have hard work to do, Do it now. Today the skies are clear and blue, Tomorrow clouds may come in view, Yesterday is not for you; Do it now. If you have a song to sing, Sing it now. Let the notes of gladness ring Clear as song of bird in spring; Let every […]