Whoever can retire for periods to Nature’s solitudes and enjoy that solitude, feeling no solitude at all, but a joyous sense of exhilaration, will return among men with more power and new power.
Prentice Mulford, Your Forces, and How to Use Them
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I believe the true road to preëminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line.
Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
…although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller, Optimism: An Essay
Promise Yourself — To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.
Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
Uncompromising integrity of character is invaluable. It secures to its possessor a peace and joy which cannot be attained without it—which no amount of money, or houses and lands can purchase.
P. T. Barnum, Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum
The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.
Thomas Troward, The Doré Lectures
One who fears the future, who fears failure, limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.
Henry Ford, My Life and Work
Through love bitter things seem sweet, Through love bits of copper are made gold. Through love dregs taste like pure wine, Through love pains are as healing balms. Through love thorns become roses, And through love vinegar becomes sweet wine.
Rumi, Masnavi i Ma'navi
…we must “be” before we can “do,” and we can “do” only to the extent which we “are,” and what we “are” depends upon what we “think.”
Charles F. Haanel, The Master Key System
…holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world, and that every system has produced men and women of the most exalted character.
Swami Vivekananda, Address at the Final Session, World's Parliament of Religions
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir, Our National Parks
…the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
…chance only favours the mind which is prepared…
Louis Pasteur, The Life of Pasteur
A poet is a man who is glad of something, and tries to make other people glad of it too.
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie, Pierre Curie
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
To get rich, is not always equivalent to being successful.
P. T. Barnum, Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum
When love comes to its fulness, then one looks at the friend with affection, on the enemy with forgiveness, on the stranger with sympathy.
Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Inner Life
Do your work with a whole heart and you will succeed—there is so little competition!
Elbert Hubbard, The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one…
Seneca, Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.
Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart's Sermons
Know thyself; know the enemy; fear not for victory.
Sun Tzu, The Book of War
Knowest thou not that parting goes before All meeting, and from darkness comes the light!
Hafiz, Poems from the Divan of Hafiz