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(ed. – Do yourself a favour. Bookmark this page of Ayn Rand musings. When everything seems off-kilter, reread.) . All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal. The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me. Throughout the centuries there…
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi Let’s start this Monday off with a list of the top 10 ways to motivate yourself. . 1. Set a specific goal “A goal without a plan…
Forbes Magazine catalogues priceless words of wisdom and Forbes staff Keren Blankfeld has done a very great job in compiling a must-read list of life observations in her piece: Billionaires To Graduates: All-Time Best Advice From Their Commencement Speeches The following list is the top 10 lessons successful business people have shared in commencement speeches…
Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone…
Winning isn’t everything, but the will to win is everything. Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Success demands singleness of…
Here are a dozen quotes from perhaps our greatest, modern-day genius. Imagination is more important than knowledge; for knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is…
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat; that is progress. – Henri Frederic Amiel And from the discontent of man / The world’s best progress springs – Ellia Wheeler Wilcox The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress…
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others. There is only one duty, only…
This week By George Journal posted one hundred of our favourite quotations of the provocative genius Ralph Waldo Emerson. Here are our Top Ten Emerson Insights: What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal…
Ralph Waldo Emerson has formed the core notions of many of our great intellects from the 1800’s. He influenced his American contemporaries, such as Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and William James, as well as notable thinkers the stature of Friedrich Nietzsche, and more recently Harold Bloom and Barack Obama. Once asked to sum up…
Through this week By George Journal is posting one hundred of our favourite quotes of Ralph Waldo Emerson – a deep, provocative 19th century author and, we believe, one of the most remarkable of thinkers of our modern age. Here are the next 25 RWE-gems to reflect upon: The reward of a thing well done, is to have done…
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet and lecturer. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a founding father of the Transcendentalist movement (expressed first in his 1836 essay Nature). Emerson authored dozens of published essays and conducted more than 1,500 public lectures across the U.S. through the mid-1800s. He wrote on the core…
This week the By George Journal salutes Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), who is argumentatively the greatest, modern day thinker and wordsmith of our ages. Each morning, we will bring readers remarkable quotes from this remarkable man – leading to Friday’s list of our “Top-Ten RWE Insights.” BGJ has chosen a hundred of our favourite gems. Today, here are 25 of our…
These memes have appear through this past year both on By George Twitter @ByGeorgeJournal and on the BGJ Facebook page. The Dalai Lama provides inspiration and reason to pause for millions around the world. He is truly a spiritual guiding light. Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer…
A Day in the Life of Man is a source of personal energy – a perfect gift for family, friends and co-workers For Chris George, remarkable quotes and verse help to put life into perspective – the magic and mysteries of our world and of man are translated through poignant thought. So, it…
Margaret Thatcher’s musings have provided motivation for many around the world. Here’s a favourite on the topic of success: What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and…
Here are ten great motivational quotes we saw yesterday on our Twitter feed – @ByGeorgeJournal. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsche Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. – Robert Kennedy The dictionary is the only place where success comes before…
A few of our favourite bons mots at By George…. Strive for excellence, not perfection. – Jackson Brown Jr. We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. – Albert Einstein Live this day as if it were your last. The past is gone. The future is not guaranteed. –…
Brian Vaszily, founder and editor in chief of IntenseExperiences.com, has provided us with his 25 greatest motivational quotes. Here they are (counted down to Vaszily’s #1 selection): 25) Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count. – Albert Einstein 24) Everything that irritates us about…
American President Theodore Roosevelt was a great motivator with many inspirational insights into attaining a solid work ethic and a purposeful life. Here are ten of his most remarkable bons mots. “Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.” “Keep your eyes on the stars and your…