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“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.”

Thomas Edison

“Growth is the only evidence of life. A lack of growth or movement indicates death.”

“For whatever we do ought to be in harmony with this: No man can set in order the details unless he has already set before himself the chief purpose of his life…The reason we make mistakes is because we consider the parts of life but never life as a whole.”

Seneca

"The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment."

Wm. A. Ward

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

L. P. Hartley

“That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.”

John Stuart Mill

“Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret, and life a beautiful success.”

Louisa May Alcott

“The surest way to justify one’s evil is to portray oneself as a victim.”

“You and I can never do a kindness too soon, for we never know how soon it will be too late.”

R. W. Emerson

“We often speak as though a lack of ‘will power’ was the only reason we fail to accomplish our goals. The more important, and often overlooked element, is the ’want power’. Nothing trumps persistence fueled by a very strong desire. As Nietzsche noted: “If a person has a strong enough ‘why’, they can endure almost any ‘how’. If you are failing to obtain your aims in life, perhaps you don’t ‘really’ want them that badly after all. Maybe you think you should want them or that others think you...

Reinforcement can be either good or bad. It all depends on what we are reinforcing. If we are reinforcing good habits which improve our lives, then Hey!, that's great. If on the other hand, we are reinforcing bad habits which are eroding our lives, then Hey!, that's not so great.

“In the real world ‘permanence’ is quite unnatural. Change is what is natural. Therefore, to expect anything or anyone to remain the same is to ignore what nature has to teach us on the subject.”

“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“I do the best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”

Abraham Lincoln

“One of the things I have made it a habit to do, is to extend a kindness to at least one person every day. This morning I had breakfast at the ‘Golden Arches’. I saw a Hispanic man with his son (perhaps seven) sitting at a table nearby. The father took the son’s hand, and the son said a short prayer of thanksgiving. I approached them and told the father that if there were more fathers like him, the country would be a much better place. I told the son that he was a very lucky young man. Both...

“I find it fascinating how many adults are of the opinion that love is a feeling or emotion. Nothing could be further from the truth. ‘True’ love is a choice based upon our values. Feeling or emotions are fickle at best.”

“I think one of the primary reasons people fail to come up with fresh ideas is because they don’t take the time to sit quietly somewhere, observe their surroundings and then think about what they have observed.”

“Guilt is not without its usefulness, if only we know how to use it. Like all emotions, it is intended to call our attention to something which needs addressing. To wallow in it is worse than useless. Ask yourself: ‘Why am I feeling guilty? Is the feeling justified? What should I do in response?”

“I feel sorry for people who feel pilloried (look it up) to their jobs. I never experienced that. I feel very fortunate. I have managed somehow to drive my own bus and not simply be a passenger.”

“I think we do ourselves and others a great disservice when we refrain from talking to strangers.”