Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 289

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It can not be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

~ Gautama Buddha

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 288

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

~Israel Zangwill

A pretty sure method of losing friends is to strive to improve them. Do all your uplift work with your enemies. -Crane

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. -Thomas Carlyle

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. -Sir Cecil Beaton

Climb On!

Climb on! Do not despond,
Though from each summit gained,
There stretch forth heights beyond--
Ideals not attained.
Life's task is but to climb,
Unheeding toil and tire,
Our failure is not crime
If we but still aspire.

-James T. White

It is aspiration that counts, not realization; pursuit, not achievement; quest, no conquest. -Beatrice Harraden

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 287

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

~Rabindranath Tagore

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. -Joseph Joubert #quotes #inspiration

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. -Carlyle

People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people! -Wilde

Work, Work, Work

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there. -Joyce Chapman

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. -Christopher Morley Pls RT #quotes

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty. -Voltaire #quotes #inspiration

To grow and know what one is growing towards--that is the source of all strength & confidence in life. -James Baillie

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. -Helen Keller #quotes

Two Roads We Can Walk

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

-Marion Zimmer Bradley

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. -Nietzsche (??)