Category: #FreeSpirit Quotes

Mediocrity Quotes

My inspiration for this page was given to me by my new aquired friend Andrew and to whom I dedicate this page…

Wish you… as well as to all my readers, to find a sparkle of wisdom in these quotes, that shall illuminate your path/s….

๐Ÿ–– & ๐Ÿงก

Always in my heart and thoughts, to my dearest copacel Emily, my sweet bumblebee, may you always seak greatness and never ask for permission and always be guided by the light of papi’s simple way of life called by giants upon shoulders we walk upon, simply …

“Sapere Aude”

ORIGIN OF MEDIOCRITY

First recorded in 1400โ€“50; late Middle English mediocrite, from Middle French mediocrite, from Latin mediocritฤt-, stem of mediocritฤs โ€œmiddle state, moderationโ€; equivalent to mediocre + -ity.

Mediocrity

Definitions from The American Heritageยฎ 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

noun ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding

noun a person of second-rate ability or value

โ€œPeople who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how great their other talents.โ€

Andrew Carnegie

โ€œMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.โ€

Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Valley of Fear”

โ€œIdleness is fatal only to the mediocre.โ€

Albert Camus

โ€œIn the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.โ€

Robert G. Ingersoll

โ€œLife without madness is mediocrity.โ€

Nelou Keramati

โ€œPeople 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 bearโ€

Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”

โ€œThe highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.โ€

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

โ€œGet off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity.

Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.โ€

Ryan Lilly

โ€œThe statistics all point towards the same conclusion: we have a global outbreak of fuckarounditis.โ€

Martin Berkhan
“The Leangains Method: The Art of Getting Ripped. Researched, Practiced, Perfected.”

โ€œNietzsche talked about โ€œgood and badโ€ in the context of nobility.

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

When the โ€œgood and badโ€ of the nobility was replaced by the โ€œgood and evilโ€ of the mob, exceptionalism was declared evil, and mediocrity was sanctified.

The holy mediocrities are now everywhere.

The kingdom of mediocrity is absolute โ€ฆ

absolute shit!โ€

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

โ€œThereโ€™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.โ€

Craig D. Lounsbrough

โ€œWhenever a book or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that whoever writes for fools always finds a large audience.โ€

Arthur Schopenhauer
“Religion: a Dialogue”

โ€œMediocre people promote mediocrity.

Dont hire mediocre people.

Instead, hire people who strive for greatness and they’ll spread that greatness throughout the company.โ€

Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr,
CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

โ€œMediocrity is never a desirable destination….

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

Napoleon Bonapartโ€

Allison Pataki
“The Queen’s Fortune”

โ€œWhen leaders tolerate mediocrity, itโ€™s a cancer that spreads like wildfire.โ€

Frank Sonnenberg
“Listen to Your Conscience:
That’s Why You Have One”

โ€œThe 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.โ€

Joe Dixon
“The Irresistible Rise of Mediocre Man:
The War On Excellence”

โ€œWe 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.โ€

Bob Rotella
“How Champions Think:
In Sports and in Life”

โ€œThe greatest enemy of enlightenment is โ€œcommon senseโ€.

In day-today life, common sense โ€œworksโ€, 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, theyโ€™re hopeless at everything else.

All geniuses, on the other hand, can โ€œseeโ€ 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 โ€“ 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.

Thatโ€™s the extent of their ambition, thatโ€™s as far as their horizons stretch.

These are the sort of people that Nietzsche scornfully branded as โ€œLast Men.โ€

Adam Weishaupt
“The Illuminati’s Six Dimensional Universe”

โ€œNothing is good but mediocrity.

The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.โ€

Blaise Pascal “Pensรฉes”

โ€œI 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 canโ€™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.โ€

Shannon L. Alder

โ€œMediocrity 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.โ€

Amelia E. Barr

โ€œAcceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.โ€

Shannon L. Alder

โ€œYou will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person’s life, other than your own.โ€

Shannon L. Alder

โ€œCaution is the path to mediocrity.

Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.โ€

Frank Herbert
“God Emperor of Dune”

โ€œI’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?โ€

Frank Herbert
“Children of Dune”
With ๐Ÿงก

Quotes about Time

Page dedicated to a new found mate, A. Padron Frodo ๐Ÿ˜‹ ๐Ÿคฃ ๐Ÿ˜

The Power is strong in this young Jedi, he just doesn’t know yet to channel it !!!

Me here to help Mr BushCraft mate ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‰ !

Enjoy the Wisdoms of these quotes !!!

๐Ÿ–– & ๐Ÿงก

Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future.

It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience.

Time is often referred to as a fourth dimension, along with three spatial dimensions.

Time is one of the seven fundamental physical quantities in both the International System of Units (SI) and International System of Quantities. The SI base unit of time is the second, which is defined by measuring the electronic transition frequency of caesium atoms.

General relativity is the primary framework for understanding how spacetime works. Through advances in both theoretical and experimental investigations of spacetime, it has been shown that time can be distorted and dilated, particularly at the edges of black holes.

Throughout history, time has been an important subject of study in religion, philosophy, and science.

Temporal measurement has occupied scientists and technologists and was a prime motivation in navigation and astronomy.

Time is also of significant social importance, having economic value (“time is money”) as well as personal value, due to an awareness of the limited time in each day and in human life spans

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

Marthe Troly-Curtin, “Phrynette Married”

“Donโ€™t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges.

Life is too short to be unhappy.”

Roy T. Bennett

“How did it get so late so soon?”

Dr. Seuss

“For what itโ€™s worth: itโ€™s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

Thereโ€™s no time limit, stop whenever you want.

You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing.

We can make the best or the worst of it.

I hope you make the best of it.

And I hope you see things that startle you.

I hope you feel things you never felt before.

I hope you meet people with a different point of view.

I hope you live a life youโ€™re proud of.

If you find that youโ€™re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”

Eric Roth,
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay”

“I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumns that there were
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see

For still there are so many things
That I have never seen
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green

I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door”

J.R.R. Tolkien

“Time is an illusion.”

Albert Einstein

“You may delay, but time will not.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

Heraclitus, “Fragments”

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“Time isnโ€™t precious at all, because it is an illusion.

What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time:

the Now.

That is precious indeed.

The more you are focused on timeโ€”past and futureโ€”the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

Eckhart Tolle,
“The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden.

A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject…

And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages.

There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them…

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”

Seneca, “Natural Questions”

“Fantasy, if it’s really convincing, can’t become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.”

Walt Disney

The Universe is very, very big.

It also loves a paradox.

For example, it has some extremely strict rules.

Rule number one:

Nothing lasts forever.

Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun.

It is an absolute rule.

Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.

Rule number two:

Everything lasts forever.”

Craig Ferguson,
“Between the Bridge and the River”

“Punctuality is the thief of time.”

Oscar Wilde

“the tired sunsets and the tired
people –
it takes a lifetime to die and
no time at
all.”

Charles Bukowski

“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”

Dante Alighieri

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“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

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. โ€ฆ

Time itself must come to a stop.

You canโ€™t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang.

We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in.

For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed.

Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything. โ€ฆ

So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense.

Time didnโ€™t exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in.

Itโ€™s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth.

The Earth is a sphere.

It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.”

Stephen W. Hawking

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”

Eckhart Tolle

“A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.”

William Faulkner,
“The Sound and the Fury”

“Nothing endures but change.”

Heraclitus

If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth’s history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours.

Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes.

Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia.

At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale.

Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow.

Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident.

Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour.

At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins.

Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight.

The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant.

Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless.

Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw.

And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flash-bulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger.

It’s a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment.

In fact, not many things do for long.”

Bill Bryson,
“A Short History of Nearly Everything”

“Time is Galleons, little brother.”

J.K. Rowling,
“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”

“The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit.

Nothing that means anything happens quickly–we only think it does.

The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making.

So it is with a life, anyone’s life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming.

And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones.”

Joseph Bruchac

I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair โ€ฆ

Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think that I have lost all sense of proportion, all sense of the real and the actual; because, what is more, I have cursed myself; because my nights of fantasy are followed by hideous moments of sobering!

And all the time one hears the human crowd swirling and thundering around one in the whirlwind of life, one hears, one sees how people liveโ€”that they live in reality, that for them life is not something forbidden, that their lives are not scattered for the winds like dreams or visions but are forever in the process of renewal, forever young, and that no two moments in them are ever the same; while how dreary and monotonous to the point of being vulgar is timorous fantasy, the slave of shadow, of the idea…”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
“White Nights”

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.

We have no present.

Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation.

We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.

We are therefore out of touch with reality.

We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is.

We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.”

Alan Wilson Watts

“Enjoy life.

There’s plenty of time to be dead.”

Hans Christian Andersen

“I lied and said I was busy.
I was busy;
but not in a way most people understand.

I was busy taking deeper breaths.
I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
I was busy calming a racing heart.
I was busy telling myself I am okay.

Sometimes, this is my busy –
and I will not apologize for it.”

Brittin Oakman

“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind.

No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our livesโ€”worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over.

No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives!

Weโ€™re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”

Seneca,
“On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It”

“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency.

No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each.”

Christopher Rice

…unfortunately, it’s true: time does heal.

It will do so whether you like it or not, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

If you’re not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge.

Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience.

Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language.

The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state.

It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.”

Charles Yu,
“How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe”

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”

Horace

“Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes.

And it makes me wonder if we’ve utilized our time properly or not.

Proper utilization of time is so important.

While we have this body, and especially this amazing human brain, I think every minute is something precious.

Our day-to-day existence is very much alive with hope, although there is no guarantee of our future.

There is no guarantee that tomorrow at this time we will be here.

But we are working for that purely on the basis of hope.

So, we need to make the best use of our time.

I believe that the proper utilization of time is this: if you can, serve other people, other sentient beings.

If not, at least refrain from harming them. I think that is the whole basis of my philosophy.

So, let us reflect what is truly of value in life, what gives meaning to our lives, and set our priorities on the basis of that.

The purpose of our life needs to be positive.

We weren’t born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others.

For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualitiesโ€”warmth, kindness, compassion.

Then our life becomes meaningful and more peacefulโ€”happier.”

Dalai Lama XIV,
“The Art of Happiness”

Wisest quotes of all time

Sometimes the word quote is used as shorthand for quotation, a passage of speech or writing thatโ€™s repeated word for word.

As a verb, to quote means to repeat someoneโ€™s words, attributing them to their originator.

When one writes out a quote, one puts the other personโ€™s words in quotation marks (โ€œAha!โ€).

To my Dearest Emily

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

May these quotes from bright minds all over the planet guide you on Your path !

From Papi with Love

โ€œHereโ€™s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holesโ€ฆ the ones who see things differently โ€” theyโ€™re not fond of rulesโ€ฆ

You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you canโ€™t do is ignore them because they change thingsโ€ฆ they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see geniusโ€ฆโ€

Steve Jobs

โ€œIf you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life.

There are no limits.

There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.โ€

Bruce Lee

โ€œUnless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never growโ€.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

โ€Buddha was asked, โ€œWhat have you gained from meditation?โ€

He replied, โ€œNothing!โ€

However, Buddha said, let me tell you what I lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, Fear of Old, Age and Death.โ€

Buddha

โ€œThe best teachers are those who show you where to look, but donโ€™t tell you what to see.โ€

Alexandra K. Trenfor

โ€œBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.โ€

Plato

โ€œBecause the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.โ€

Steve Jobs

โ€œDo the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.โ€

Lao Tzu

โ€œNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.โ€

Margaret Mead

โ€œIn a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.โ€

George Orwell

Man: โ€˜I want happinessโ€™

Buddha: First remove โ€Iโ€, this is Ego.

Then remove โ€œWantโ€, this is desire.

Finally all that remains is โ€œHappiness.โ€

Buddha

โ€œLogic will get you from A to B.

Imagination will take you everywhere.โ€

Albert Einstein

โ€œEverything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.โ€

Carl Jung

โ€œIโ€™m not in this world to live up to your expectations and youโ€™re not in this world to live up to mine.โ€

Bruce Lee

โ€œNever let school interfere with your education.โ€

Mark Twain

โ€œThe real question is not whether life exists after death.

The real question is whether you are alive before your death.โ€

Osho

โ€œWhen I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.โ€

Lao Tzu

โ€œHe who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.โ€

Lao Tzu

โ€œYou have enemies?

Good; that means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life.โ€

Winston Churchill

โ€œTo live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.โ€

Oscar Wilde

โ€œWe canโ€™t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created themโ€

Albert Einstein

โ€œLoneliness is and will always be the most abundant source of human experience.โ€

Swami Vivekanand

โ€œGreat minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.โ€

Eleanor Roosevelt

โ€œYou might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all โ€“ in which case, you fail by default.โ€

J.K. Rowling

โ€œOur prime purpose in this life is to help others.

And if you canโ€™t help them, at least donโ€™t hurt them.โ€

Dalai Lama

โ€œSo many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.โ€

Christopher McCandless

โ€œWhen I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.

I wrote down โ€œHappy.โ€

They told me I didnโ€™t understand the assignment, and I told them they didnโ€™t understand life.โ€

John Lennon

โ€œEverybody is a genius.

But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.โ€

Albert Einstein

โ€œYou must be the change you wish to see in the world.โ€

Gandhi

โ€œA mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.โ€

Oliver Wendell Holmes

โ€œTime is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.โ€

Henry van Dyke

โ€œYou miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.โ€

Wayne Gretzky

โ€œWe are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.โ€

Aristotle

โ€œIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.โ€

Aristotle

โ€œI am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.โ€

Socrates

โ€œLife isnโ€™t about finding yourself.

Life is about creating yourself.โ€

George Bernard Shaw

โ€œThe flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.โ€

Walt Disney Company, “Mulan”

โ€œDo not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.โ€

Ralph Waldo Emerson

โ€œYou yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affectionโ€

Gautama Buddha

โ€œThe past has no power over the present moment.โ€

Eckhart Tolle

โ€œThe truth is, everyoneโ€™s going to hurt you.

Youโ€™ve just got to find the ones worth suffering for.โ€

Bob Marley

โ€œRock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.โ€

J.K. Rowling

โ€œA man who conquers himself is greater than one who conquers a thousand men   in battleโ€

Buddha

โ€œWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.โ€

Ralph Waldo Emerson

โ€œIf you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.โ€

Ancient Chinese Proverb

โ€œAn eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.โ€

Mahatma Gandhi

โ€œA man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.โ€

Mahatma Gandhi

โ€œYour vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.         Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.โ€

Carl Jung

โ€œNever be bullied into silence, never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no oneโ€™s definition of your life,
define yourself.โ€

Robert Frost

โ€œOur greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.โ€

Confucius

โ€œA person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.โ€

Albert Einstein

โ€œHappiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers    to turn on the light.โ€

JK Rowling

โ€œLife will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.โ€

Eckhart Tolle

โ€œOnly those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.โ€

T. S. Eliot

โ€œNot all those who wander are lost.โ€

J. R. R. Tolkien

โ€œTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnโ€™t do than by the ones you did do.โ€ โ€“ Mark Twain

โ€œTwo roads diverged in a wood and I โ€“ I took the one less traveled by.โ€

Robert Frost

โ€œAs we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.โ€

John F. Kennedy

โ€œWith everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.โ€



โ€œGreat spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.โ€โ€” Albert Einstein

โ€œDarkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.โ€ โ€“ Martin Luther King, Jr.

โ€œWe must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.โ€ โ€“ Martin Luther King, Jr.

โ€œThe secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.โ€ โ€“ Socrates

โ€œYour time is limited, so donโ€™t waste it living someone elseโ€™s life. Donโ€™t be trapped by dogma โ€“ which is living with the results of other peopleโ€™s thinking. Donโ€™t let the noise of othersโ€™ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.โ€ ~ Steve Jobs

โ€œLive as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.โ€

Mahatma Gandhi

โ€œIn the end, itโ€™s not the years in your life that count.

Itโ€™s the life in your years.โ€

Abraham Lincoln

โ€œWeโ€™re all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

That alone should make us love each other but it doesnโ€™t.

We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.โ€

Charles Bukowski

โ€œThousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

Happiness never decreases by being shared.โ€

Buddha

โ€œSing like no oneโ€™s listening, love like youโ€™ve never been hurt, dance like nobodyโ€™s watching, and live like its heaven on earth.โ€

Mark Twain

โ€œIs it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?

Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

To be great is to be misunderstood.โ€

Ralph Waldo Emerson

โ€œThe most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.

Beautiful people do not just happen.โ€

Elisabeth Kรผbler-Ross

โ€œAll life is an experiment.

The more experiments you make, the better.โ€

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Know thyself.”

Socrates


“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

Socrates

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Socrates

“Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.”

Dalai Lama

“The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.”

Aristotle

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.”

William Shakespeare

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

George Santayana

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”

Helen Keller

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

Aristotle

Leave a trail…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 โ€“ 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, Emersonโ€”nicknamed the Sage of Concord โ€” 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 denialโ€”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 Iย  ๐Ÿ’š ly Recomend

“So many books, so little time.”

Frank Zappa

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

Mark Twain

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”

Henry Miller, “The Books in My Life“
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Books I  ๐Ÿ’šly reccomend

"The Compound effect" - Darren Hardy

"Algorithms to live by" - Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths

"Ikigai" - Hector Garcia & Francesc Mirales

"Thinking, Fast and Slow" - Daniel Kahneman

"Emotional Intelligence" - Daniel Goleman

"The magic of thinking Big" - David Schwartz,PHD

"Sapiens" - Yuval Noah Harrari

"Noise" - Daniel Kahneman & Oliver Sibony & Cass R. Sunsteen

"The tipping point" - Malcom Gladwell

โ€œBlinkโ€ โ€“ Malcom Gladwell

โ€œDavid & Goliathโ€ โ€“ Malcom Gladwell
 
"The New Human Rights Movement" - Peter Joseph 
(Zeitgeist - watch it ๐Ÿ˜‰ )
 
"Zero to one" - Peter Thiel

"The intelligent Investor" - Benjamin Graham

"How to make friend and be successful" - Dale Carnegie

"Law of Success" - Napoleon Hill

โ€œThink and Grow Richโ€ โ€“ Napoleon Hill

"Positive Thinking" - Napoleon Hill

"The Business Ideea Factory" - Andrii Sedniev

"Common Stocks & Uncommon Profits" - Philip A. Fisher

"The little book of common sense investing" - John C. Boogle

"Freakonomics" - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

"Influnce" - Robert B. Cialdini,PHD
 
โ€œThe Psycology of Moneyโ€ โ€“ Morgan Housel

โ€œThe Art of Strategyโ€ โ€“ R. L. Wing
 
โ€œWarren Buffet and the Interpretation of Financial Statementsโ€ โ€“ Mary Buffet & David Clark

โ€œ30+ Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffet & Charlie Mungerโ€ โ€“ Daniel Pecaut with Corey Wrenn
 
โ€œCryptoTrading Proโ€ โ€“ Alan T. Norman

โ€œMastering Bitcoinโ€ โ€“ Andreas M. Antonopoulos 

โ€œMastering Ethereumnโ€ โ€“ Andreas M. Antonopoulos

โ€œThe Internet of Moneyโ€ โ€“ Andreas M. Antonopoulos

โ€œThe Bitcoin Standardโ€ โ€“ Saifedean Ammous

โ€œ21 Lessonsโ€ - Gigi

"Book of Satoshi" - Phil Champagne

"Inventing Bitcoin" - Yan Pritzker, Nicholas Evans

"Digital Gold:The Untold Story of Bitcoin" - Nathaniel Popper

"Grokking Bitcoin" - Kalle Rosenbaum, David A. Harding

"Alghorithms Illuminated" - Tim Roughgarden

"Consumer Psichology and Consumer Behaviour" - Max Mittelstaedt

"Deep Work" - Cal Newport

โ€œBiology of Beliefโ€ โ€“ Bruce Lipton
 
โ€œThe HoneyMoon Effectโ€ โ€“ Bruce Lipton

โ€œEgo is the Enemyโ€ โ€“ Ryan Holiday

โ€œA history of almost Everythingโ€ โ€“ Bill Bryson

โ€œPsychology of Moneyโ€ โ€“ Morgan Housel

"Rich Dad, Poor Dad" - Robert T. Kiyosaky

"CashFlow Quadrand" - Robert T. Kiyosaky

"Guide To Investing" - Robert T. Kiyosaky

โ€œAtlas of AIโ€ โ€“ Kate Crawford

โ€œUse both sides of your brainโ€ โ€“ Tony Buzan

โ€œMind Maps for kidsโ€ โ€“ Tony Buzan

โ€œStudy Skillsโ€ โ€“ Tony Buzan

"Mind Map Mastery" - Tony Buzan

โ€œAtomic Habitsโ€ โ€“ James Clear

โ€œThe First and last Freedomโ€ โ€“ J Krishnamurti

"The Emperor of all maladies" - Siddhartha Mukherjee

"A brief History of everyone who ever lived" - Siddhartha Mukherjee

"The Gene" - Siddhartha Mukherjee

โ€œBusiness Adventuresโ€ โ€“ John Brooks
 
โ€œCode Breakerโ€ โ€“ Walter Isaacson

โ€œA thousand Brainsโ€ โ€“ Jeff Hawkins
 
โ€œSocial Engineeringโ€ โ€“ Christopher Hadnagy

โ€œThe Innovators Dilemmaโ€ โ€“ Clayton M. Christensen

โ€œCritical Pathโ€ โ€“ R. Buckminster Fuller, Kiyoshi Kuromiya
 
โ€œPrice of Tomorrowโ€ โ€“ Jeff Booth
 
โ€œPedagogy of the Oppressedโ€ โ€“ Paulo Freire
 
โ€œThe Sovereign Individualโ€ โ€“ James Dale Davinson,William Rees-Mogg
 
โ€œThe Broken CEOโ€ โ€“ Chris Pearse
 
โ€œPragmatic thinking and Learningโ€ โ€“ Andy Hunt

โ€œThe Creature from Jekill Islandโ€ โ€“ G. Edward Griffin

โ€œThe Wealth of Nationsโ€ โ€“ Adam Smith

โ€œThe Lawโ€ โ€“ Frederic Bastiat

"The Bastiat Collection:Volume 1" - Frederic Bastiat
 
โ€œTools of Titansโ€ โ€“ Tim Ferris
 
โ€œAn Essay concerning Human Understandingโ€ โ€“ John Locke

โ€œA treatise on Human Natureโ€ โ€“ David Hume,Thomas Hill Green

โ€œThe Richest Man in Babylonโ€ โ€“ George O. Clason

โ€œThink Againโ€ โ€“ Adam Grant

โ€œThe Alchemistโ€ โ€“ Paulo Coelho

โ€œBlack Swanโ€ โ€“ Nassim Nicholas Taleb 

"The Rise of the Computer State" - David Burnham

"The Productivity Revolution" - Marc Reklau

"The Power of Habbit" - Charles Duhigg

"The Way Out" - Peter T. Coleman

"Digital Body Language" - Erica Dhawan

"The Promises of Giants" - John Amaechi

"Dedicated" - Pete Davis


"How to Change" - Kathy Milkman

"Substract" - Leidy Klotz

"The Psichogy of Selling" - Brian Tracy

"Awaken the Giant Within" - Tony Robbins

"Crushing It" - Gary Vaynerchuck

"The Power of Now" - Eckhart Tolle

"Sell or be Sold" - Grant Cardone

"The One Thing" - Gary Keller

"The Snowball" - Alice Schroeder

"Tap Dancing to Work:Warren Buffet on practically Anything" - Carol Loomis

"Extreme Ownership" - Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

"The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*uck" - Mark Manson

"The Miracle Morning" - Hal Elrod, Robert Kiyosaki

"Tools of the Titans" - Tim Ferris

"Die Sheeple! Die!" - DJ Hives

"A few Lessons for Investors and Managers from Warren Buffet" - Peter Bevelin

"Warren's Buffet Ground Rules" - Jeremy Miller

"Limping on Water" - Phil Beuth, K. C. Schulberg

"Shoe Dog" - Bill Knight

"Where are the Customers Yacths" - Fred Schwed Jr.

"40 Chances" - Howard G. Buffet, Warren E. Buffet

"Clash of the Cultures:Investment vs. Speculation" - John C. Bogle, Arthur Lewitt

"Poor Charlie's Almanack" - Charles T. Munger

"Think Again" - Adam Grant

"Charlie Munger-The Complete Investor" - Tren Griffin

"Bull" - Maggie Mahar

"The Hard thing about Hard things" - Ben Horowitz


"Atomic Habbits" - James Clear

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

Charles W. Eliot

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Cicero

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

J.K. Rowling

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Franz Kafka

“The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.”

George Orwell, “1984“

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

Abraham Lincoln

“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

The list will always be updated…

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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 copฤƒcel… 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 ๐Ÿงก Love ๐Ÿงก

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. “

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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. “

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Imagination

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

Itโ€™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. “

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Strongest oak

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

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Weak desires

” In parting, I would remind you that โ€œLife 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! “

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Life is a checkboard

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

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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. “

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Genius

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

lives.”

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Broaden your view

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

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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. “

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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. “

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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. “

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” 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”. “

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The turning point

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

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One step beyond your greatest failure

” Awake, arise,and assert yourself,

you dreamers of the world.

Your star is now in ascendancy. “

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Dreamers of the world

” Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats. “

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Temporary defeats

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

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Effort and reward

” Fears are nothing more than

a state of mind. “

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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. “

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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? “

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Faith vs Fear

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

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Limitation

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

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Dominating thoughts

” There is no substitute for persistence.

The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that โ€œOld Man Failureโ€ finally becomes tired, and makes his departure.

Failure cannot cope with persistence. “

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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.”

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Mind busy with definite purpose

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

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3 P’s

“Success requires no explanations.

Failure permits no alibis.”

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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. “

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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.

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Nature

” Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through โ€œopinionsโ€ 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 โ€œopinionsโ€ or ridicule. “

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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. “

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Your mind is your spiritual estate

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

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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 canโ€™t. “

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Worthwhile objective

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

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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. “

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Imagination – the workshop of your mind

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

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Knowledge

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

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Ladder of success

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

It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION! “

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Lack of Ambition

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

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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. “

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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. “

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Know where you’re going

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

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More Wisdom

” You have a brain and mind of your own.

Use it, and reach your own decisions. “

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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…

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Thoughts are things

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

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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. “

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The Mind

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

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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 โ€˜self-madeโ€™ 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. “

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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. “

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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. “

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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. “

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“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. “

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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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