“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.” PersonsActionSuccessSuccessfulFailingHabitCommitmentSuccessful Person Author:Thomas A. Edison
“A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.” FirstsActionConsciousnessStepsSalvationFirst StepsStoicWrongdoing Author:Seneca the Younger
“How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?” Action Author:Seneca the Younger
“How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.” ActionCoursesHonorPursuePleasantDestinationHonorable Author:Seneca the Younger
“Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.” ActionFightingBattleRetreat Author:Seneca the Younger
“We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!” IfsThinkingShouldHeartActionViewsPeersRecess Author:Seneca the Younger
“You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.” ActionDispositionPersevere Author:Seneca the Younger
“Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.” ActionRememberEnergyDifficultEffortTasksConstantApplicationWithin YouExplosivesDifficult Tasks Author:Og Mandino
“"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"” ActionBornFountainheadHoward RoarkGail Author:Ayn Rand
