Mind
“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may be prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” ~Romans 12:2. Our mind can often limit our spirit and body. So a man thinks, so a man is.
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Quote To Ponder ~Samuel Smiles
“To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. Thus earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence.” ~Samuel Smiles Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
“The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men – between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant – is energy, invincible determination – a purpose once fixed, and then – death or victory! That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, Continue reading
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The Choice of Hercules
Editor’s Note: This excerpt appeared in Jan. 9, 2016 on AOM From the Memorabilia By Xenophon, c. 371 B.C. When Hercules was in that part of his youth in which it was natural for him to consider what course of life he ought to pursue, he one day retired into a desert, where the silence Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~John Webster
“The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action…the soul was never put into the body to stand still.” ~John Webster Continue reading
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Ben Franklin’s Maxims on Industry
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man heathy, wealthy and wise. Diligence is the mother of good luck. God helps them that help themselves. At the working man’s house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. For industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them. By diligence and patience the mouse ate in Continue reading
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The Worth Of Each Day
From Moral Letters to Lucilius, 65 A.D. By Seneca Continue to act thus, my dear Lucilius – set yourself free for your own sake; gather and save your time, which ‘til lately has been forced from you, or filched away, or has merely slipped from your hands. Make yourself believe the truth of my words Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Calvin Coolidge
“Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.” ~Calvin Coolidge Continue reading
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The Strenuous Life
Excerpt from The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses, 1902 By Theodore Roosevelt I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere Continue reading
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