Henry Ford’s Advice to Young Men: “Look for what makes you unique”
Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, and never will be again.
Quality Over Quantity: Let your guiding rule be not how much…
Cultivate finer tastes and discrimination in your choice of things. Get a right idea of values. Material possessions that you do not need and can not use are only a nuisance. Let your guiding rule be not how much but how good; quality over quantity. A thing you do not...
Eleanor Roosevelt explains how she developed courage
“I craved attention all through my childhood, because I was made to feel so conscious of…
Good is eternal and indestructible, evil is…
Good is constructive, evil is destructive. Good elevates, encourages, and sustains; evil saddens, enslaves, and kills. Good builds churches, hospitals, monuments, cathedrals; evil sets up saloons, gambling-houses, and dens of sin. Good paints great pictures, carves...
Greatness of life is largely the product of definite purpose and…
There are larger possibilities for you. Greatness of life is largely the product of definite…
Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men…
– J.R. Lowell
Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot…
– J.G. Holland
How Abraham Lincoln’s log-splitting led him to the Presidency
Abraham Lincoln was elected President largely because he was a rail-splitter.
Keep Going: The Power of Steadfast Determination
The successful man is not the man who works by fits and starts, but he who keeps constantly and quietly on his way, with his purpose like a guiding star ever in view. To be sure you are right, and then go ahead, and keep going ahead, is the true spirit.
Look around you, and you will behold a universe full of energy…
Action is, so to speak, the genius of nature.
