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To suspect your wealth is to begin to be wealthy.
— Wendell Berry
On Money, Plainly
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
— Baltasar Gracián
On Money, Plainly
No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
— Francis Bacon
On Money, Plainly
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
— Henry David Thoreau
On Money, Plainly
The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is s…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
On the Working Life
There are no second acts in American lives.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
On Starting Over
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
On Starting Over
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still reta…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
On Focus & Distraction
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
On Purpose
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
On Discipline
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
On Starting Over
Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
— Jackie Joyner-Kersee
On Confidence
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
— Tim Ferriss
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to…
— Tim Ferriss
On Focus & Distraction
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
— Tim Ferriss
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
— Tim Ferriss
On Focus & Distraction
The question you should be asking isn't what do I want? or what are my goals? but what would excite me?
— Tim Ferriss
On Purpose
Being busy is a form of laziness — lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
— Tim Ferriss
On Focus & Distraction
Life is too short to be small.
— Tim Ferriss
On Confidence
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
— Les Brown
On Discipline
Just because fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play…
— Les Brown
On Starting Over
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
— Les Brown
On Discipline
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all.
— Les Brown
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were n…
— Les Brown
On Purpose
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
— Les Brown
On Confidence
You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.
— Les Brown
On Discipline
If you go through life expecting nothing, you will find much.
— Les Brown
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
— Les Brown
On Confidence
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
— Les Brown
On Anxiety & Quiet Days