“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
— Booker T. Washington
“There are many people who — perhaps with the best of intentions — make promises they somehow never get around to keeping. These folks have usually developed a number of perfectly plausible explanations for not meeting their commitments; they have become experts at explaining away their failures. Successful people, though, are those who accept responsibility for their lives. They know that talk is cheap; actions are all that really matter. The world is waiting for men and women who seek the opportunity to render real service — the kind of service that lightens the burdens of their neighbors, the kind of service that 95 percent of people do not render because they do not understand it. When you provide a truly useful service, enthusiastically and in a spirit of genuine helpfulness, success will automatically follow. The world seeks out such individuals and rewards them accordingly.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Whether or not you realize it, your mental focus is creative. Your very experience of the world is determined by what you choose to pay attention to.”
— William DeFoore
“The very life of that one called the Prince of Peace, called the Beloved – that very one’s life is an example of what you must do to fulfill the spiritual promise to yourself. You have to come awake that you were born the Lord.”
— John-Roger
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
— Franz Kafka
“Trust yourself. Only you can live your life.Only you can taste your victories.Only you can suffer the sting of your defeats.Make your own choices, and accept your own consequences – for better or worse.’
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination.”
— Albert Einstein
“There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.”
— Hermann Hesse