A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
Ben Okri Flowers & Shadows Longman Drumbeat
Be who you really are…
Other people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things or more money, in order to do more of wha they want, so they will be happier. the way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
~ Margaret Mead
The future…
I’ve seen the future and it is very much like the present–only longer.
~ Dan Quisenberry
Patience…
Patience is something yu admire in the driver behind you, but not the one ahead.
Bill McGlashen
The great man…
The great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.
~ Mencius
Friends…
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
~ Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Divine Beauty in Learning…
There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.
~ Elie Wiesel
Failure…
Don’t be discouraged by failure. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
~ John Keats