Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a
tragedy.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a
tragedy.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum
strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum
strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability
and determination to overcome bad read more

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability
and determination to overcome bad luck.

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs
and honor those whom they have slain. The read more

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs
and honor those whom they have slain. The Brothers Karamazov
.

Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull
it out and strike it, merely read more

Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull
it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power
of simplicity. We have a tendency it read more

The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power
of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives
and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement
for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as
the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget
that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on
outside.

It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point of
reality—to make something real.

It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point of
reality—to make something real.

To sit in judgment
of those things which you perceive to be wrong or
imperfect is to be one more read more

To sit in judgment
of those things which you perceive to be wrong or
imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or
imperfection.