December 2010
9 posts
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” -George Washington
To obtain a man’s opinion of you, make him mad. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. -Jonathan Swift
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -Albert Einstein
Common Hours
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -Henry David Thoreau
Our Inner Fire
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.- Albert Schweitzer
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” -Napoleon Hill
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. -Hill
The Brink of Failure
“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.” -Napoleon Hill