Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
Energy flows where attention goes.
To get what you really want in life, you need a clear goal that has purpose and meaning behind it.
Once this is in place, you can focus your energy on the goal and become obsessive about it.
When you learn how to focus your energy, amazing things happen.
MermaidDiagram Comment.
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
Why do people respect the package rather than the man?
We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own.
Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
I, who boast of embracing the pleasures of life so assiduously and so particularly, find in them, when I look at them thus minutely, virtually nothing but wind. But what of it? We are all wind.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
We cannot be held to promises beyond our power or our means. That is why - since nothing is really in our power but our will - it is on the will that all the rules and duties of Man are based and established.
Knowledge Strategy Execution
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
