Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
Author: Aristotle
All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal--a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends--wisdom, money, material and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Author: Aristotle
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Author: Aristotle
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Author: Aristotle
The significant problems we face cannot be resolved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Author: Albert Einstein
A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer lives are based on the labors of other people,``living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Author: Albert Einstein
There are two ways to create happiness. The first is external. By obtaining better shelter, better clothes, and better friends, we can find a certain measure of happiness and satisfaction. The second is through mental development, which yields inner happiness.
Author: Dalai Lama
I always have the feeling that I'm just another human being.
Author: Dalai Lama
If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Author: Gerald Weinberg
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Author: buddha
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Author: Buddha
Like every other skill, the more we save, the easier it is to save. It all in getting started. There’s no gain as sure as saving a part of all we earn.
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If you work for a fortune the first half of your life, your fortune will work for you the second half.
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Many remain poor because they can’t resist buying things they don’t need.
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Save money. If you don’t need it for security, you need it for character. There’s little character in poverty.
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Our ability to say no to false pleasures doubles our means to say yes to true ones.
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Success comes oftener through right attitude than great ability. Several companies were going under through lack of money. They hired consultants who points out theirs problem was not a money problem, but an idea problem. New ideas saved them.
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Never measure your progress by your income, but by your bank account. Remember the man in the mirror at 70 or 80.
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The highest of all arts, and the most rewarding, is the art of living.
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We don’t own expensive possessions. They own us by the expense of supporting them.
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Before you consult your wants, consult your purse.
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To become financially independent, pitch your goal of living a notch below your income. And never spend any money before you have it. Well arranged finances are a sure sign of well arranged mind.
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It’s impure thoughts that produce the secretions that create passion.
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Never part with your dreams. When they’re gone, you might still exist, but you cease to live.
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Just once in your life sit down to think and decide what one thing you want most out of life – what you want to be, or do, or have. Then WRITE IT DOWN.
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Let no sleep fall upon your eyes until you’re reviewed the acts of the day. What did I forgot or do wrong? Think up a way to avoid it in the future. What more could I have done or done better? Asking questions of yourself impels you to think for the answers.
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Never dwell on what you have lost, only on what you have left. Count your blessings. You’ll always find plenty. You most prized possessions are your un-expired years.
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Your leisure largely determines your future. Are you investing or wasting it?
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Every one of us has a three pounds brain and 1440 minutes every day. What we do with them determines our future. Some set goals and plan their lives – and win.
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Failing to distinguish between needs and wants keeps many people poor. Think.
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When you get the blues, tell yourself: A pauper had the blues because he had no shoes, until he chanced to meet a man who had no feet.
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Obstacles are those pesky things that hinder us only when we lose sight of our goal.
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The average person could increase his income 20% by increasing his thinking 1%. One percent of your day is 14 minutes. Is that too much time to spend to increase your income 20%? Every day asks yourself: what one thing can I do today to increase my income? Asking yourself a question impels you to think to find the answer.
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Better than low taxes for mending hard times is the habit of spending less than we earn. Wealth comes oftener from decreasing our wants than from increasing our income. A real sign of growing sense is learning to reduce expenses.
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If you want to succeed, do what successful men did. They do what failures don’t like to do; they discipline themselves. The undisciplined life isn’t worth living.
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Nature’s law: No breaks without aches; no gain without pain; no skill without drill.
Author: Nature’s law
The supreme philosophy is fortitude, self-mastery. To become a money master, or success master, we must first become self-masters.
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A good slogan: LEARN HOW AND DO NOW.
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Resolve to observe or learn something new every day. It’ll keep you mentally sharp and youthful.
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Idleness is graveyard of living. A life unemployed is a life un-enjoyed.
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