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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself read more
The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
What you can become you are already.
What you can become you are already.
Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best.
Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we read more
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to
put energy into something can be remarkable. read more
The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to
put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.
