“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he’d learned in seven years.”
The above quote is generally attributed to Mark Twain, because it sounds like something he would [...]

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

-Orison Swett Marden
There is a world of strength in taking full responsibility for the direction of your life.
It is true that life is [...]

Here’s something I came across while reading the other day. It sums up a great many things that I believe.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who [...]

In “As A Man Thinketh” by James Allen wrote, “Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”
That’s a pretty harsh statement for a lot of people. I’ve heard all sorts of excuses from folks why they couldn’t succeed, or why their life is in disarray. They blame other people, the [...]

I believe that happiness is a skill that can be learned. I’m not saying that if you learn to be happy, problems will stop jumping in to your life. I’m saying that you can learn to be happy no matter your place in life.
In “How To Win Friends & Influence People,” Dale Carnegie says:
You [...]