“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
-– Albert Einstein
“Take a shortcut to happiness. Don’t bring yourself down by thinking you have to do all of those hard things first, before you’ll be truly happy. When it comes to being happy, the sooner the better. And your reasons for happiness are always right here, in everything that is good, right and working in your life.”
— William DeFoore
“Every really new idea looks crazy at first.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
“Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.”
— James Dewar
“The human mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.”
— Charles Kettering
“Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.”
— Isaiah Berlin
“The only luck in the world is the luck you create for yourself. Only in the casino are the odds in favor of the house. In real life, the odds always favor those who use their time wisely to pursue their goals constructively, to fill every day with a full measure of honest work. Bad luck befalls those who waste time and mental energy hoping for the big break that will propel them to greatness. We all have the same 24 hours available to us in each day. Most of us spend eight hours working and eight hours sleeping . What you do with the remaining eight hours will have a tremendous influence on the level of success you achieve in your life.”
— Napoleon Hill
“The going is always hard on the road to greatness. If success were easy, everyone would achieve it. NFL All-Pro lineman Brian Holloway recalled that when he was playing for the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Raiders, there wasn’t a single day when he didn’t feel like giving up because the road was too tough and the sacrifices were too great. He didn’t quit, of course; he was willing to pay the price because he was determined to succeed. True thoroughbreds never quit. Competition only spurs them, and obstacles merely reinforce their determination to succeed. If you have not yet achieved greatness in your life, it is because you have been willing to settle for less. You may not cross the finish line first every time you try, but if you stay in the race, you will eventually prevail.”
— Napoleon Hill