Dream
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw - Irish writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1925 (1856-1950), from "Back to Methuselah" (1922), Quotations book 2021
Goals
Focus
Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yeas". You have to say "No" to lesser things in order to say "Yeas" to greater things. E. Stanley Jones - American Methodist Christian missionary and seminarist (1894-1973), in "Abundant Living" (1942), Quotations book 2021
Integrity
Excellence and competitiveness are totally compatible with honesty and integrity. The A student, the four minute miler, the high jump record holder - all strong winners - can achieve those results without resorting to cheating. People who cheat are simply weak. Jack Welch - born John Francis Welch jr., legendary American manager: General Electric (1935-2020), Fortune 1999: Manager of the...
Look forward
It is one of life"s laws that as soon as one door closes, another one opens. But the tragedy is that we look at the closed door and disregard the open one. attributed to André Gide - French writer, Nobel Prize in literatue 1947 (1869-1951), Quotations book 2021
Perseve
Ma sappi che prima di entrare nella Terra Promessa avrai da attraversare il Mar Rosso e il deserto. Don Giovanni Melchiore Bosco - sacerdote cattolici e pedagogo italiano (1815-1888), a Michele Rua (3.10.1852), citati in "Don Bosco: Una biografia nuova" (1979), Libretto delle citazioni 2021 But know that before attaining the Promised Land you’ll have to cross the Red Sea and the desert. Don...
Soultion
Fix it, sell it or close it. Jack Welch - born John Francis Welch jr., legendary American manager: General Electric (1935-2020), Fortune 1999: Manager of the Century, Quotations book 2021
Vere vivere
How long I might live is beyond my control; how long I will live, in the sense of truly living, is mine. Quamdiu sim alienum est: quamdiu ero, (vere) ut sim, meum est. Lucius Annaeus Seneca – Roman philosopher (4 B.C.-65 A.C.), from "Epistulae morales ad Lucilium", Liber XV, letter 93 (written 64), Quotations book 2021
What do you do for others?
When you dream of success, are you ready for endurance? You are ambitious to lead, but are you ready to serve? We all want to get, do we know how to give? We all want to be heard, but are we prepared to listen? We all want to be happy, but do we feel for the sad? We all want to standout, but do we know how to be supportive? We all know what we want, but do you know what you need? You want to...
Ultimative aim
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others. Joseph J. Campbell – American writer, Professor of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College (1904-1987), from "Myths to Live By" (1972)
Role-model
We must become what we wish to teach. Nathaniel Branden - born Nathan Blumenthal, American psychotherapist and author (1930-2014), from "The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem" (1994)
Give away
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to pass it on. proverb, often falsely attributed to William Shakespeare (English writer, 1564-1616) or Pablo Picasso (born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, Spanisch artist, 1881-1973)
Better
Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom. Jim Rohn - American entrepreneur, author and motivational trainer (1930-2009), from "The Art of Exceptional Living" (1993), Quotations book 2023
Independence
Like Warren [Buffett], I had a considerable passion to get rich, not because I wanted Ferraris — I wanted the independence. I desperately wanted it. Charlie Munger - Vice Chairman Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023)
Vision
Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you. Tony Hsieh – American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist, CEO Zappos (1973-2020)
Challenge
Difficulties break some men but make others. Nelson Mandela – South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, 1994-99 president, Nobel Peace Prize (1918-2013), from a letter to Winnie Mandela from Robben Island (February 1st, 1975)
Start early
Plan the difficult when it is easy; Handle the big where it is small. The world"s hardest work begins when it is easy; The world"s largest effort begins where it is small. from the Tao Te Ching - most significant proverb collection of Daoism (chapter 63, 4th century BC), according to a legend written by Lao Tzu (Chinese philosopher, c. 3rd to 5th century BC)
Everyone starts small!
Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson - American writer (1803-1882), from "Letters and Social Aims", chapter 7: "Progress of Culture" (1875)
The way to the stars
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. Lucius Annaeus Seneca – Roman philosopher (4 B.C.-65 A.C.), from his comedy "Hercules Furens", line 437 "Megara" (c. 54)
Hero
It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman. Heroes you can be once in a while; gentlemen, you must always be. Luigi Pirandello - Italian writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1934 (1867-1936), from his comedy "The Pleasure of Honesty", Act one, Scene three (1917) È molto più facile [...] essere un eroe che un galantuomo. Eroi si può essere una volta tanto; galantuomini, si dev"esser sempre....
New paths
It would be absurd and self-contradictory to expect to achieve things, which have never yet been done can be done, other than through means that have never yet been tried. Insanum quiddam esset, et in se contrarium, existimare ea, quae adhuc nunquam facta sunt, fieri posse, nisi per modos adhuc nunquam tentatos. Sir Francis Bacon - English philosopher, politician and writer (1561-1626), from...