"The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim."
-Napoleon Hill
One definite chief aim
Built on failures...
"If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures."
-unknown
Life is a chance
"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."
-Dale Carnegie
Rejoice(d)
Words of poet Rabindranath Tagore:
"When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries while you rejoice."
Imaginative Literature
"The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own."
-William Empson, literary critic and poet (27 Sep 1906-1984)
Helping Others...
"If you make your business about helping others, you'll always have plenty of work."
-Chris Guillebeau
Thoughts & feelings of individuals
"In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty."
-Owen Barfield, author (1898-1997)
Perseverance is
"You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this & want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance."
-Lee Iacocca
Difference of Happiness
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet."
-James Openheim
Converse with ease
"The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease."
-Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (22 Sep 1694-1773)
Secrets at once
"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
-Stephen King, novelist (b. 21 Sep 1947)
Persistent People
"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."
-Edward Eggleston
Strong on... Weak on....
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place.
Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
-Orison Swett Marden
Dare to Try
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed.
They never dare to try.
-Mary Kay Ash
Potential Value
"In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it."
-Norman Vincent Peale
Errands to and fro
"Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go
Abroad upon her errands to and fro."
-James Howell, writer (c. 1594-1666)
Get busy
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
-T Roosevelt
.....What you want to be
"Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be."
-Anne Byrhhe
Committing great
"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld, aphorist (15 Sep 1613-1680)
Counterfeit cycle
"Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men."
-Sydney J. Harris, journalist and author (14 Sep 1917-1986)
Rich & Enrich
"Don't go into business to get rich. Do it to enrich people. It will come back to you."
-Stew Leonard
Look inside
"Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you."
-Wally 'Famous' Amos
Always skeptical and tolerant
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure."
-H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (12 Sep 1880-1956)
What is necessary?
It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
-Winston Churchill
Safe & comfortable???
"Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable."
-Madeleine Kunin
What you are...
"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction."
-Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (9 Sep 1828-1910)
Destructive IQ
"Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point."
-Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, researcher (b. 11 Sep 1979)
Gen Next
"If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world."
-Claude Pepper, senator and representative (8 Sep 1900-1989)
Happy Teachers Day
அன்பாய் இருந்து
ஆசைகள் தவிர்த்து
இனிமையாய் நடந்து
ஈகையை சொல்லி கொடுத்து
உண்மையாய் உழைத்து
ஊக்கம் கொடுத்து
எந்நாளும் கற்று
ஏணிப்படியாய் இருந்து
ஐயம் அதை தீர்த்து
ஒற்றுமையை உணர்த்தி
ஓங்கி வளர உதவி
ஒளவை போல அறிவிற் சிறந்து
அஃதே வாழும்
ஆசிரியர்களுக்கு
இனிய ஆசிரியர் தின நல் வாழ்த்துக்கள்...
Light of Science
"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."
- Isaac Asimov
Misstep in right direction
"£Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."
-Al Bernstein
Give up on something
"Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about."
-Unknown
Less & More
"It seems like the less a statesman amounts to the more he adores the flag."
-Kin Hubbard, humorist (1 Sep 1868-1930)
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