“Success is not dependent on unique attributes but on ordinary qualities taken to an extraordinary degree through ambition and hard work.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leadership: In Turbulent Times
On reason
‘So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.’
Benjamin Franklin
Did Lincoln Say ‘America Will Never Be Destroyed From the Outside’?
Widely shared memes contained a quotation that is commonly attributed to the Great Emancipator…
So. Not exactly ‘real’ but still true. Source: Did Lincoln Say ‘America Will Never Be Destroyed From the Outside’?
Be a reasonable creature
Benjamin Franklin — ‘So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.’
Overthinking
Overthinking: the art of creating problems that weren’t even there.
Each year one vicious habit discarded…
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin
Source: Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. – Franklin
Top 100 Motivational Quotes (2023 Update) via QuoteFancy
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Make No Little Plans
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.” Source: Make No Little Plans (Daniel Burnham)
Learn to be indifferent
Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
Marcus Aurelius
Bright, shiny objects! 