It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Effort is a measure of a Man.
So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.
We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.
As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.
We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
Instinct leads, logic does but follow.
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