“Early in the morning, when you are reluctant in your laziness to get up, let this thought be at hand: ‘I am rising to do the work of a human being.’” —Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor “Do not allow your fire to go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours.” —Ayn Rand “Do not live as if you have ten thousand years left. Your fate hangs over you. While you are still living, while you still exist on this Earth, strive to become a genuinely great person.” —Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor
" Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God - this is the secret of greatness. If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological gods, and in all the gods which foreigners have noew and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, and stand up on the faith and be strong." "To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean", says the persevering soul ; "at my will mountains will crumble up". Have that sort of energy, that sort of will ; work hard, and you will reach the goal ." "The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had bee n mre extensively taught and practised, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanised". "This is the great fact: strength is life , weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immo...