Develop a Winning Mentality: Quotes to Fuel Your Drive - page 244
Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: "Time is money." He invented that idea. Before that, time wasn't money in the same way; in the medieval age it was regarded as sinful for money to be the object of your life.
Tom Hodgkinson
The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.
Robert R. Shannon
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills
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Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.
David Livingstone
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.
Pete Wentz
One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds.
J. E. H. MacDonald
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
George Washington Carver
Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
William Powell
The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.
We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
