You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning read more

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't
succeed; you must have a larger ambition. read more

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't
succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business
success...If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully
within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much
about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust read more

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in read more

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of read more

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on
purpose and focused on giving read more

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on
purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into
my life, then I was prosperous.