On vision
I had an almost intolerable awareness that every morning began with infinite promise. Any book may be read, any idea thought, any action taken. Anything that has ever been possible to human beings is possible to most of us every time the clock says six in the morning. On a day no different from the one now breaking, Shakespeare sat down to begin Hamlet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.
—Charles Fletcher Dole, The Hope of Immortality
On staying active
If I had to live my life again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied could thus have been kept active through use.
—Charles Darwin
On meaningfulness
I suppose the moments one most enjoys are moments alone when one unexpectedly stretches something inside you that needs stretching.
—Georgia O’Keeffe
On unnecessary effort
I don’t look to jump over seven-foot bars. I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over.
—Warren Buffett
On the unexpected
The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.
—Carl Gustav Jung
On difficulties
I have a sign on my office wall, right across from my desk. It says, "Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter."
—Daniel E. 'Dan' Reeves
On life
The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers.
—Ruth Benedict
Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
—Andrew Carnegie
On persistence
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done, and done right.
—Walt Disney
On learning
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
—Aristotle
On success
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
—Franklin Roosevelt
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
—Albert Einstein
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
—Dale Carnegie
Whether you think you can or think you can’t—you are right.
—Henry Ford
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for; but, rather something to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan
Hone your skills for work and family and you hone them for living life to the fullest
