My monthly search for reinforcement of my positive thinking always seems to come around to someone who described success decades or centuries ago but it is still true today. Here are some examples.
• Your greatness is measured by your kindness. Your education and intellect by your modesty, Your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices. Your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others., Wm. J.H. Boetcker
• The higher men climb the longer their working day. And any young man with a streak of idleness in him may better make up his mind at the beginning that mediocrity will be his lot. Without immense, sustained effort he will not climb high. And even though fortune or chance were to lift him high, he would not stay there. For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there. There are no office hours for leaders., Cardinal James Gibbons (1834-1921)
• Thought, not money, is the real business capital, and if you know absolutely that what you are doing is right, they you are bound to accomplish it., Harvey Firestone (1868-1938.)
• Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain a friend; one may lose and regain money; opportunity once spurned may come again; but the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits. Most careers are made or marred in the hours after supper. C.R. Lawton
It always strikes as funny how history plays a key role in our success. By reading and being reinforced by historic successful men and women we every day get reminded that people like the men listed above learned through experience and we only can benefit from their fortune by not reinventing the wheel but just being reminded that their experiences still work today.
• Your greatness is measured by your kindness. Your education and intellect by your modesty, Your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices. Your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others., Wm. J.H. Boetcker
• The higher men climb the longer their working day. And any young man with a streak of idleness in him may better make up his mind at the beginning that mediocrity will be his lot. Without immense, sustained effort he will not climb high. And even though fortune or chance were to lift him high, he would not stay there. For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there. There are no office hours for leaders., Cardinal James Gibbons (1834-1921)
• Thought, not money, is the real business capital, and if you know absolutely that what you are doing is right, they you are bound to accomplish it., Harvey Firestone (1868-1938.)
• Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain a friend; one may lose and regain money; opportunity once spurned may come again; but the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits. Most careers are made or marred in the hours after supper. C.R. Lawton
It always strikes as funny how history plays a key role in our success. By reading and being reinforced by historic successful men and women we every day get reminded that people like the men listed above learned through experience and we only can benefit from their fortune by not reinventing the wheel but just being reminded that their experiences still work today.