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 | "A philosophical old gentlemen, as he passed by, "My boy, are you
planting seeds or planting blossoms?"" | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to
do, the patience to wait.... Put these together and you have genius, and
you have achievement." | |
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Found in the topic Genius.
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| "Great men are those who have had noble purposes to achieve, great
tasks to perform, or mighty causes to vindicate. A high expression of
self-mastery is but the reflection of these great purposes upon
personality and character. The demand upon character molds the essential
self-mastery; the goal forges the strength needed to achieve it.... In
your reading you have probably found the oft-repeated syllogism: ?Great
minds have purposes, others have wishes.? ... Great purposes demand and
endow strong minds; wishes need only weak minds. The soundness of this
principle is found in the fact that men are not great until they have
achieved great things. The strength is the product of the struggle; the
endowment follows the achievement. Nature never pays an unearned account;
and she never fails to pay one that is earned. In fact, earning is
possessing; the two processes are simultaneous." | |
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Found in the topic Greatness.
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| "You will never have a greater or a lesser dominion than that over
yourself." | |
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Found in the topic Self.
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