Changing Circumstances

 


The universe is change; life is what thinking makes of it. 
– Marcus Aurelius


We cannot change the past, but we can reshape the future. Young people have the opportunity to create a happier, better future. - Dalai Lama

 
It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it. – Epictetus




When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
– Sherlock Holmes


 
The universe is change; life is what thinking makes of it. 
– Marcus Aurelius
 

Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything. - anon.

 
"Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil."
John Paul Getty


"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
Dale Carnegie

 
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Thomas Edison

 
"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
Henry David Thoreau


" The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it."
anon.


"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
Nelson Mandela


 
"One secret of success in life is for a man to be
ready for his opportunity when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeli

 
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe. 
Norman Vincent Peale
  

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. Bernard M. Baruch

 
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. Bernard M. Baruch

 
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. 
Henry David Thoreau

 
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. Erma Bombeck

 
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. Dale Carnegie

 
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein

 
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. Theodore Roosevelt

 
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. Mark Twain

 
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
Walt Disney

 
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius

 
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business,
and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius

 
As a general rule the most successful man in life is
the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli

 
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli


Through perseverance many people win success out of what
seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli
 


"One fails forward toward success."
Charles F. Kettering

 
"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist."
J. P. Getty
 
  


I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. 
Henry David Thoreau
 
  


“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” -Albert Einstein

“It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing. So it is—the life we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it. Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while wealth however limited, if it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use, so life is amply long for the one who orders it properly.”
-Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

(Source of the quote above)

 

“Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America: Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run -- in the long-run, I say! -- success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.”

 -Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning