Mediocrity Quotes

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ORIGIN OF MEDIOCRITY

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English mediocrite, from Middle French mediocrite, from Latin mediocritāt-, stem of mediocritās “middle state, moderation”; equivalent to mediocre + -ity.

Mediocrity

Definitions from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

noun The state or quality of being mediocre.

noun Mediocre ability, achievement, or performance.

noun One that displays mediocre qualities.

from The Century Dictionary.

noun The character or state of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate; specifically, a moderate degree of mental ability.

noun Moderation; temperance.

noun A mediocre person; one of moderate capacity or ability; hence, a person of little note or repute; one who is little more than a nobody.

noun Synonyms Medium, Average, etc. See mean, n.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

noun The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.

noun obsolete Moderation; temperance.

noun A mediocre person; — used disparagingly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

noun The quality of being intermediate between two extremes; a mean.

noun obsolete A middle course of action; moderation, balance.

noun uncountable The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard.

noun An individual with mediocre abilities or achievements.

noun ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding

noun a person of second-rate ability or value

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how great their other talents.”
Andrew Carnegie

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Valley of Fear”

“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
Albert Camus

“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”
Robert G. Ingersoll

“Life without madness is mediocrity.”
Nelou Keramati

“People don’t want to think.

And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.

But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty.

So they’ll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking.

Anyone who makes a virtue – a highly intellectual virtue – out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt…

They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors.

They don’t know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear”
Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”

“The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity.

Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.”
Ryan Lilly

“The statistics all point towards the same conclusion: we have a global outbreak of fuckarounditis.”
Martin Berkhan
“The Leangains Method: The Art of Getting Ripped. Researched, Practiced, Perfected.”

“Nietzsche talked about “good and bad” in the context of nobility.

The nobles regarded the exceptional as good and the mediocre as bad.

When the “good and bad” of the nobility was replaced by the “good and evil” of the mob, exceptionalism was declared evil, and mediocrity was sanctified.

The holy mediocrities are now everywhere.

The kingdom of mediocrity is absolute …

absolute shit!”
David Sinclair
“The Wolf Tamers:
How They Made the Strong Weak”

“There’s nothing brave in pushing myself to the edge of my comfort zone.

Bravery is about refusing to be in any kind of comfort zone in the first place.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Whenever a book or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that whoever writes for fools always finds a large audience.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Religion: a Dialogue”

“Mediocre people promote mediocrity.

Dont hire mediocre people.

Instead, hire people who strive for greatness and they’ll spread that greatness throughout the company.”
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr,
CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Mediocrity is never a desirable destination….

At least, not when practice might transform mediocrity to competence, or even skill.’

Napoleon Bonapart”
Allison Pataki
“The Queen’s Fortune”

“When leaders tolerate mediocrity, it’s a cancer that spreads like wildfire.”
Frank Sonnenberg
“Listen to Your Conscience:
That’s Why You Have One”

“The death of quality foreshadows the death of humanity.

What is the point of humanity if it does not produce the highest quality and excellence?

A humanity that is not ascending is descending.

As it is, the crushing weight of averageness and mediocrity presses down on everything and makes all high things flat, drab and dull.

All the tall poppies have to die.

The only tall poppies the mediocre like are those associated with wealth, beauty and fame.

They despise the intelligent, the artistic and the technical.”
Joe Dixon
“The Irresistible Rise of Mediocre Man:
The War On Excellence”

“We can choose to believe in ourselves, and thus to strive, to risk, to persevere, and to achieve.

Or we can choose to cling to security and mediocrity.

We can choose to set no limits on ourselves, to set high goals and dream big dreams.

We can use those dreams to fuel our spirits with passion.”
Bob Rotella
“How Champions Think:
In Sports and in Life”

“The greatest enemy of enlightenment is “common sense”.

In day-today life, common sense “works”, which is why ordinary people revere it.

Most managers in the workplace are good at common sense i.e. knowing how to play the system, to obey the rules, to pander to higher managers, to avoid radical ideas, to highlight their modest successes and blame others for their failures, and to stick firmly within the domain of the conventional, acceptable and uncontroversial.

Unfortunately, they’re hopeless at everything else.

All geniuses, on the other hand, can “see” far beyond the realm of common sense.

They use imagination, intuition and visionary ideas as their guides, not the trivialities of common sense.

What would you rather be – a middle manager with a comfortable common sense life, or a genius who has unlocked the door to the mysteries of existence?

Tragically for humanity, most people aspire to be middle managers.

That’s the extent of their ambition, that’s as far as their horizons stretch.

These are the sort of people that Nietzsche scornfully branded as “Last Men.”
Adam Weishaupt
“The Illuminati’s Six Dimensional Universe”

“Nothing is good but mediocrity.

The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.”
Blaise Pascal “Pensées”

“I no longer follow the voices of the sane.

I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not.

This is the paradox of philosophers—trying to understand mass delusion among great people that have faith and knowledge, yet they can’t graduate from their institutions of religious theology to apply the knowledge they have gained for the shifting of Zion—- from words to action;

from comfort to uncomfortable;

from self serving to self giving;

from competition to supporting;

to tradition to unity;

from bias to acceptance;

from me to us.”
Shannon L. Alder

“Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration.

For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.”
Amelia E. Barr

“Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.”
Shannon L. Alder

“You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person’s life, other than your own.”
Shannon L. Alder

“Caution is the path to mediocrity.

Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.”
Frank Herbert
“God Emperor of Dune”

“I’m going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid.

I don’t find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you.

How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity?

How else do we define cowardice?”
Frank Herbert
“Children of Dune”

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Latin Quotes

"Lupus non timet canem latrantem."

'The wolf is not afraid of a barking dog.'

"Dulce bellum inexpertis."

'War is sweet to those who have never experienced it.'

"Qui totum vult totum perdit."

'He who wants everything, loses everything.'

"Faber est suae quisque fortunae."

“Every man is the artisan
of his own fortune,”

"A bove ante, ab asino retro,
a muliere undique caveto."

“Beware of the bull from the front,
the donkey from behind,
and women from all sides.”

"Acta non verba."

“Deeds not words,”

"Carpe noctem."

“Seize the night.”

"Barba tenus sapientes."

“As wise as far as the beard.”

"Aegroto dum anima est."

‘As long as there is life, there is hope.’

"Tempus fugit."

"Time flies."

“Cogito, ergo sum.”

‘I think therefore I am.’
René Descartes

“Beati pauperes spiritu.”

’Blessed are the poor in spirit.’

"Ex nihilo nihil fit"

‘Out of nothing comes nothing.’

"Amor est vitae essentia."

 ‘Love is the essence of life.’

"Barba non facit philosophum."

‘The beard does not make
one a philosopher.’

Aut neca aut necare."

‘Either kill or be killed.’

"Hoc es bellum."

‘This is war!’

"Carpe vinum."

“Seize the wine,”

"Ad astra per aspera."

“Through adversity to the stars,”

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The Art of War Quotes

The Art of War (Chinese: 孫子兵法; lit. ‘Sun Tzu’s Military Method’, pinyin: Sūnzi bīngfǎ) is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th century BC).

The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu (“Master Sun”), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted to a different set of skills or art related to warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics.

For almost 1,500 years it was the lead text in an anthology that was formalized as the Seven Military Classics by Emperor Shenzong of Song in 1080.

The Art of War remains the most influential strategy text in East Asian warfare and has influenced both East Asian and Western military theory and thinking and has found a variety of applications in a myriad of competitive non-military endeavors across the modern world including espionage, culture, politics, business, and sports.

When you start to read Sun Tzu’s words, you may realize that they have very real applications to modern life, especially if you are in a position of leadership or if you deal regularly with strategic questions.

These musings can be applied to practical problems you may be trying to solve, and they can also be good starting points for more theoretical reflection.

Topics that span from philosophy and wisdom to strategy and leadership, here are the most notable quotes from The Art of War.

Quotes on the Philosophy of War

“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.”
“All warfare is based on deception.”
“It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.”
“The skillful soldier does not raise a second levy, neither are his supply-wagons loaded more than twice.”
“To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
“He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.”
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
“What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.”
“Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.”
“Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.”
“Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy’s purpose.”
“Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of the trigger.”
“Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”
“If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.”
“In war, practice dissimulation, and you will succeed.”
“If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.”
“We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.”
“The experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.”
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt.”

Quotes on War and Leadership

It is clear throughout The Art of War that victory is explicitly related to the strength of an army’s leader. Sun Tzu’s advice for generals and commanders applies to many kinds of leaders.

“The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand.”
“The general who is skilled in defense hides in the most secret recesses of the earth; he who is skilled in attack flashes forth from the topmost heights of heaven.”
“The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.”
“Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.”
“Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.”
“The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.”
“All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.”
“Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.”
“He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.”
“The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.”
“Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.”
“We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country—its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.”
“Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.”
“No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.”
“What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.”
“When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization.”
“If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler’s bidding.”
“Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.”
“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.”
“A leader leads by example not by force.”

Quotes on War and Strategy

Sun Tzu’s strategic counsel can still be used in the 21st century. Whether you are creating a business strategy or devising steps to pursue a personal goal, these quotes from The Art of War may offer some valuable insights and guidance.

“Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.”
“If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him.”
“Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.”
“The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.”
“The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals.”
“You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.”
“O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy’s fate in our hands.”
“Numerical weakness comes from having to prepare against possible attacks; numerical strength, from compelling our adversary to make these preparations against us.”
“Knowing the place and the time of the coming battle, we may concentrate from the greatest distances in order to fight.”
“In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.”
“Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.”
“To take a long and circuitous route, after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him, to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation.”
“Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your compactness that of the forest.”
“In raiding and plundering be like fire, in immovability like a mountain.”
“Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.”
“Forestall your opponent by seizing what he holds dear, and subtly contrive to time his arrival on the ground.”
“Walk in the path defined by rule, and accommodate yourself to the enemy until you can fight a decisive battle.”
“At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.”
“If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.”
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.”
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

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Henry David Thoreau

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

The obedient must be slaves.”

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817-May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet. Thoreau’s writing is heavily influenced by his own life, in particular his time living at Walden Pond. He has a lasting and celebrated reputation for embracing non-conformity, the virtues of a life lived for leisure and contemplation, and the dignity of the individual.

Portrait of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), 1847. Private Collection.
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A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay “Civil Disobedience” (originally published as “Resistance to Civil Government”), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.

Thoreau’s books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism.

His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and attention to practical detail.He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life’s true essential needs.

Thoreau was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the fugitive slave law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau’s philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Thoreau is sometimes referred to as an anarchist. In “Civil Disobedience”, Thoreau wrote: “I heartily accept the motto,—’That government is best which governs least;’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,—’That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. … But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.”

Legacy

Thoreau did not see the huge successes in his lifetime that Emerson saw in his. If he was known, it was as a naturalist, not as a political or philosophical thinker. He only published two books in his lifetime, and he had to publish A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers himself, while Walden was hardly a bestseller.

Thoreau is now, however, known as one of the greatest American writers. His thinking has exerted a massive worldwide influence, in particular on the leaders of non-violent liberation movements such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., both of whom cited “Civil Disobedience” as a major influence on them.

Like Emerson, Thoreau’s work in transcendentalism responded to and reaffirmed an American cultural identity of individualism and hard work that is still recognizable today. Thoreau’s philosophy of nature is one of the touchstones of the American nature-writing tradition.

But his legacy is not only literary, academic, or political, but also personal and individual: Thoreau is a cultural hero for the way he lived his life as a work of art, championing his ideals down to the most everyday of choices, whether it be in solitude on the banks of Walden or in behind the bars of the Concord jail.

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

“I was not born to be forced.

I will breathe after my own fashion.

Let us see who is the strongest.”
Henry David Thoreau, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms…”
Henry David Thoreau

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
Henry David Thoreau

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Henry David Thoreau

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.

To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.

I love to be alone.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

There is no play in them, for this comes after work.

But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things…”
Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.

There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
Henry David Thoreau

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

Now put the foundations under them.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“All good things are wild and free.”
Henry David Thoreau

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Our life is frittered away by detail.

Simplify, simplify.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden and Other Writings”

“We need the tonic of wildness…

At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.

We can never have enough of nature.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden: Or, Life in the Woods”

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
Henry David Thoreau, “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours…”
Henry David Thoreau

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

It is not so bad as you are.

It looks poorest when you are richest.

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.

Love your life, poor as it is.

You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.

I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
Henry David Thoreau

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Things do not change; We change.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
Henry David Thoreau

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Henry David Thoreau, “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
Henry David Thoreau

“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
Henry David Thoreau, “Familiar Letters”

“I do believe in simplicity.

It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit.

When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms.

So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.

Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.”
Henry David Thoreau

“The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves.

Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes.

Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state.

…The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free!

It is the freedom of a prison-yard.”
Henry David Thoreau, “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“…for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

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Leave a trail…

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and his ideology was disseminated through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay “Nature”.

Following this work, he gave a speech entitled “The American Scholar” in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America’s “Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”

Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), represent the core of his thinking. They include the well-known essays “Self-Reliance”, “The Over-Soul”, “Circles”, “The Poet”, and “Experience.” Together with “Nature”, these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson’s most fertile period.

Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for mankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world.

Emerson’s “nature” was more philosophical than naturalistic: “Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.”

Emerson is one of several figures who “took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world.”

He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him.

“In all my lectures,” he wrote, “I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.” Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow transcendentalist.

As a lecturer and orator, Emerson—nicknamed the Sage of Concord — became the leading voice of intellectual culture in the United States.

James Russell Lowell, editor of the Atlantic Monthly and the North American Review, commented in his book My Study Windows (1871), that Emerson was not only the “most steadily attractive lecturer in America,” but also “one of the pioneers of the lecturing system.”

Herman Melville, who had met Emerson in 1849, originally thought he had “a defect in the region of the heart” and a “self-conceit so intensely intellectual that at first one hesitates to call it by its right name”, though he later admitted Emerson was “a great man”.

Theodore Parker, a minister and transcendentalist, noted Emerson’s ability to influence and inspire others: “the brilliant genius of Emerson rose in the winter nights, and hung over Boston, drawing the eyes of ingenuous young people to look up to that great new star, a beauty and a mystery, which charmed for the moment, while it gave also perennial inspiration, as it led them forward along new paths, and towards new hopes”.

Emerson’s work not only influenced his contemporaries, such as Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, but would continue to influence thinkers and writers in the United States and around the world down to the present.

Notable thinkers who recognize Emerson’s influence include Nietzsche and William James, Emerson’s godson. There is little disagreement that Emerson was the most influential writer of 19th-century America, though these days he is largely the concern of scholars.

Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and William James were all positive Emersonians, while Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James were Emersonians in denial—while they set themselves in opposition to the sage, there was no escaping his influence.

To T. S. Eliot, Emerson’s essays were an “encumbrance”. Waldo the Sage was eclipsed from 1914 until 1965, when he returned to shine, after surviving in the work of major American poets like Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane.

In his book The American Religion, Harold Bloom repeatedly refers to Emerson as “The prophet of the American Religion”, which in the context of the book refers to indigenously American religions such as Mormonism and Christian Science, which arose largely in Emerson’s lifetime, but also to mainline Protestant churches that Bloom says have become in the United States more gnostic than their European counterparts.

In The Western Canon, Bloom compares Emerson to Michel de Montaigne: “The only equivalent reading experience that I know is to reread endlessly in the notebooks and journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American version of Montaigne.”

Several of Emerson’s poems were included in Bloom’s The Best Poems of the English Language, although he wrote that none of the poems are as outstanding as the best of Emerson’s essays, which Bloom listed as “Self-Reliance”, “Circles”, “Experience”, and “nearly all of Conduct of Life”.

In his belief that line lengths, rhythms, and phrases are determined by breath, Emerson’s poetry foreshadowed the theories of Charles Olson.

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Books Quotes I 💚

“So many books, so little time.”
Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
Ernest Hemingway

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
Groucho Marx

” ‘Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read. “
Mark Twain

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent

What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
Stephen King

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
Franz Kafka

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
J.K. Rowling

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Cicero

“I cannot live without books.”
Thomas Jefferson

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
Mark Twain

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
St. Augustine

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
Margaret Fuller

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” –
Carl Sagan

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
Maya Angelou

“It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
John Waters

“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.”
Kate DiCamillo

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Stephen King

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”
Jeanette Winterson

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick Douglass

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Cicero

“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”
Jean Rhys

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson

“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The book is not simply the object that one holds in one’s hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it: its unity is variable and relative. As soon as one questions that unity, it loses its self-evidence; it indicates itself, constructs itself, only on the basis of a complex field of discourse.”
Michel Foucault

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
Confucius

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Napoleon Hill Quotes

To my Dearest Emily

A drop of Wisdom in an ocean of Ignorance, Stupidity, Mediocrity and Madness, that this world has become lately copăcel… Sad…

May these quotes from bright minds all over the planet guide you and bring a ray of light on Your path !

From Papi with 🧡 Love 🧡

Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill was an American author in the area of the new thought movement who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature.

He is widely considered to be one of the great writers on success.

His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich (1937), is one of the best-selling books of all time (at the time of Hill’s death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies).

Hill’s works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success.

He became an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1936. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve” is one of Hill’s hallmark expressions.

How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach of the average person, were the focal points of Hill’s books.

” The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE.

Keep this constantly in mind.

Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Desire

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
The Mind

” You are the master of your destiny.

You can influence, direct and control your own environment.

You can make your life what you want it to be. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
The Master of your destiny

” When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Defeat

” Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’.

Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along. “

Napoleon Hill
Time will never be just right’

” When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. “

Napoleon Hill
Desires and superhuman powers

” A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. “

Napoleon Hill
Quitter vs. Winner

” The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. “

Napoleon Hill
More than you’re paid

” Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds. “

Napoleon Hill
Limitations

” Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Happiness

” An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge.

An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
An educated man

” Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
The Seed

” More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Mind gold

” A goal is a dream with a deadline. “

Napoleon Hill
Goal

” Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth.

Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them.

If you are influenced by “opinions” when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Opinions…cheapest commodities on earth !

” We refuse to believe that which we don’t understand. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Refuse to believe…

” You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body.

One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear.

The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith.

Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you? “

Napoleon Hill – “Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success”
Fear

” Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart.

Be careful what your thoughts

dwell upon. “

Napoleon Hill – “Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success”
Law of Nature

” IF – and this is the greatest of them all – I had the courage to see myself as I really am, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Courage to see thyself

” First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality.

The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. “

Napoleon Hill
Imagination

” The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun.

It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. “

Napoleon Hill
Strongest oak

” Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat. “

Napoleon Hill
Weak desires

” In parting, I would remind you that “Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time.

If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time.

You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions! “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Life is a checkboard

” Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. “

Napoleon Hill
Persistance

” A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him. “

Napoleon Hill
Genius

” Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their

lives.”

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Broaden your view

” If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation. “

Napoleon Hill
Learning while you’re earning

” Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. “

Napoleon Hill
Silence

” One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.

Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory.

It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning.

Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure.

Worry will never bring it back. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Love

” TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.

This is the equivalent of saying “deeds, and not words, are what count most. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”

” Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they “arrive”.

The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their “other selves”. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
The turning point

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

Napoleon Hill
One step beyond your greatest failure

” Awake, arise,and assert yourself,

you dreamers of the world.

Your star is now in ascendancy. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Dreamers of the world

” Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats. “

Napoleon Hill – “Law of Success”
Temporary defeats

” Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. “

Napoleon Hill
Effort and reward

” Fears are nothing more than

a state of mind. “

Napoleon Hill – “Law of Success”
Fears

” Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be. “

Napoleon Hill
The mind

” You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body.

One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear.

The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith.

Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you? “

Napoleon Hill – “Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success”
Faith vs Fear

” The only limitation is that which one sets up in one’s own mind. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Limitation

” Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Dominating thoughts

” There is no substitute for persistence.

The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that “Old Man Failure” finally becomes tired, and makes his departure.

Failure cannot cope with persistence. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Persistance

” The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.”

And

“A man whose mind is filled with fear not only destroys his own chances of intelligent action, but he transmits these destructive vibrations to the minds of all who come in contact with him, and destroys, also, their chances.”

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Mind busy with definite purpose

” Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. “

Napoleon Hill
3 P’s

“Success requires no explanations.

Failure permits no alibis.”

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Success

” He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it. “

Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
Determination and Desire

” Nature will not tolerate idleness or vacuums of any sort.

All space must be and is filled with something . . .

When the individual does not use the brain for the expression of positive, creative thoughts, nature fills the vacuum by forcing the brain to act upon negative thoughts.

Napoleon Hill – “Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success”
Nature

” Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through “opinions” and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous.

Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through “opinions” or ridicule. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Opinions

” If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things.

Your mind is your spiritual estate!

Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled.

You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Your mind is your spiritual estate

” Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act for yourself. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Company of people who influence you

” Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude.

If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can’t. “

Napoleon Hill
Worthwhile objective

” Failure always is a blessing when it forces one to acquire knowledge or to build habits that lead to the achievement of one’s major purpose in life. “

Napoleon Hill – “Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success”
Failure

” All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. “

Napoleon Hill
Imagination – the workshop of your mind

“Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application towards some worthy end.”

Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
Knowledge

” The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Ladder of success

” There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy.

It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION! “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Lack of Ambition

“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Temporary defeat

” Love is essential for happiness, but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another, resembles the little lamb who crept into the den of the nice, gentle little wolf and begged to be permitted to lie down and go to sleep, or the canary. “

Napoleon Hill – “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”
Love

” The leaders in every walk of life decide quickly, and firmly.

That is the major reason why they are leaders.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Know where you’re going

” ASK any wise man what he most desires and he will, more than likely, say “more wisdom. “

Napoleon Hill – “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”
More Wisdom

” You have a brain and mind of your own.

Use it, and reach your own decisions. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
You have a brain…Use it!

Thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire…

Napoleon Hill
Thoughts are things

” Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.”

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
No retreat

” The mind has a definite way of clothing one’s thoughts in appropriate physical equivalents.

Think in terms of poverty and you will live in poverty.

Think in terms of opulence and you will attract opulence.

Through the eternal law of harmonious attraction, one’s thoughts always clothe themselves in material things appropriate unto their nature. “

Napoleon Hill – “You Can Work Your Own Miracles”
The Mind

” No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher. “

Napoleon Hill – “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”
Every man is your teacher

” INSUFFICIENT EDUCATION.

This is a handicap that may be overcome with comparative ease.

Experience has proven that the best-educated people are often those who are known as ‘self-made’ or self-educated.

It takes more than a university degree to make one a person of education.

Any person who is educated has learned to get whatever they want in life without violating the rights of others.

Education consists not so much of knowledge, but of knowledge effectively and persistently applied.

People are paid not merely for what they know, but more particularly for what they do with what they know. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Self-Education

” Then accumulated knowledge is not wisdom?

A Great heavens, no!

If knowledge were wisdom, the achievements of science would not have been converted into implements of destruction. “

Napoleon Hill – “Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success”
Knowledge vs Wisdom

” The entire world is made up of only two things, energy and matter.

In elementary physics we learn that neither matter nor energy (the only two realities known to man) can be created nor destroyed.

Both matter and energy can be transformed, but neither can be destroyed.

Life is energy, if it is anything.

If neither energy nor matter can be destroyed, of course life cannot be destroyed.

Life, like other forms of energy, may be passed through various processes of transition, or change, but it cannot be destroyed.

Death is mere transition.

If death is not mere change, or transition, then nothing comes after death except a long, eternal, peaceful sleep, and sleep is nothing to be feared.

Thus you may wipe out, forever, the fear of Death. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Fear of Death

” ‘Master Mind’, meaning a mind that is developed through the harmonious co-operation of two or more people who ally themselves for the purpose of accomplishing any given task. “

Napoleon Hill – “The Law of Success”
“Master Mind”

” KNOWLEDGE will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical PLANS OF ACTION, to the DEFINITE END of accumulation of money.

Lack of understanding of this fact has been the source of confusion to millions of people who falsely believe that “knowledge is power.”

It is nothing of the sort!

Knowledge is only potential power.

It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end. “

Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Knowledge is potential power

Sources :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/399.Napoleon_Hill

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ORIGIN OF MEDIOCRITY

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“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.The obedient must be slaves.”Henry David Thoreau

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To my Dearest EmilyA drop of Wisdom in an ocean of Ignorance, Stupidity, Mediocrity and Madness, that this world has become lately copăcel… Sad…May these quotes from bright minds all over the planet guide you and bring a ray of light on Your path ! From Papi with 🧡 Love 🧡

Napoleon Hill

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“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

The obedient must be slaves.”

Henry David Thoreau

To my Dearest Emily

A drop of Wisdom in an ocean of Ignorance, Stupidity, Mediocrity and Madness, that this world has become lately copăcel… Sad…

May these quotes from bright minds all over the planet guide you and bring a ray of light on Your path !

From Papi with 🧡 Love 🧡