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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On Discipline
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On Discipline
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
On Purpose
Do one thing every day that scares you.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
On Confidence
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
On Focus & Distraction
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
— Marcel Proust
On Purpose
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
— Benjamin Franklin
On Focus & Distraction
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
— Benjamin Franklin
On Discipline
Well done is better than well said.
— Benjamin Franklin
On Discipline
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
— Benjamin Franklin
On Discipline
A penny saved is a penny earned.
— Benjamin Franklin
On Money, Plainly
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
— Benjamin Franklin
On Money, Plainly
It is difficulties that show what men are.
— Epictetus
On Confidence
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
— Epictetus
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
— Epictetus
On Discipline
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Discipline
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all y…
— Marcus Aurelius
On Purpose
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Purpose
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Starting Over
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Discipline
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Discipline
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
— Richard Nixon
On Starting Over
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
— C.S. Lewis
On Starting Over
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
— Joseph Campbell
On Starting Over
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
On Starting Over
The beginning is always today.
— Mary Shelley
On Starting Over
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the…
— Mary Pickford
On Starting Over
There is nothing permanent except change.
— Heraclitus
On Starting Over
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
— Dolly Parton
On Starting Over