Stuff About Things #23

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
     — Rudyard Kipling

"Loosen the bonds of greed from your hands and neck."
     — Rumi

"Conceit is an unusual disease; it makes everyone sick but the one who has it."
     — James Dobson

"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year."
     — Leonardo da Vinci

"If you win the rat race, you're still a rat."
     — Lily Tomlin

"Fortunate is he who doesn't carry envy as a companion."
     — Rumi

"Envy is a defect, worse than any other."
     — Rumi

"Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide."
     — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Convictions are more dangerous than lies."
     — Nietzsche

"We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons."
     — George Washington

"We either step forward into growth, or we step back into safety."
     — Abraham Maslow

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and it's not the same man."
     — Heraclitus, 5th century Greek philosopher

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
     — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
     — Henry Ford

"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not figures."
     — Aristotle

"Wise is a person whose undertakings are free from anxiety about results."
     — Krishna, The Bhagavad Gita

"The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
     — Calvin Coolidge

"Willpower is the key to success."
     — Dan Millman

"We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye."
     — Carlos Castaneda

"There is only one way to achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind."
     — Eric Butterworth

"Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't."
     — Barbara Sher

"Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness."
     — Lao Tzu

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
     — Napoleon

"I love men who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress."
     — Thomas Paine

"When a problem comes along, you must whip it."
     — Devo