The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. –Vince Lombardi
Archive for the ‘Personal Development’ Category
The Will to Succeed
Posted in Fortitude on March 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Charting Your Own Path
Posted in Self Reliance on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Even as bad actors cannot sing alone, but only in chorus, so some cannot walk alone. Man, if thou art aught, should strive to walk alone and hold converse with thyself, instead of skulking in the chorus! At length, think; look around thee; bestir thyself, that thou mayest know who thou art! –Epictetus
Facing Adversity
Posted in Adversity on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. –Seneca the Younger, 4 BC – 65 AD
Learning from Others
Posted in Education on September 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. –Socrates
Eisenhower on Motivation
Posted in Leadership on July 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Leadership is getting someone else to do something you want done because they want to do it. –Dwight Eisenhower
Forbes on Ability
Posted in Ability on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. –Malcolm Forbes
Epictetus on Perception
Posted in Perception on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are. –Epictetus, Greek Philosopher, 55 AD – 135 AD
Nathanael Greene on Persistence
Posted in Persistence on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I fight, I am defeated, I rise and fight again. –General Nathanael Greene, Revolutionary War Hero
The Opportunity of Crisis
Posted in Adversity on May 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis–once that crisis can be recognized and understood. –Norman Cousins
Socrates on Personal Development
Posted in Personal Development on April 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At his trial for heresy, Socrates proclaimed that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” This is a profoundly true statement, but one which needs to be examined itself. We all know people who go through life constantly questioning themselves and their actions. At the other end of the spectrum, many float through life never [...]
