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“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.”

Thinking Motivational Wealth Materials Source Achievement Discovery Gains Originals Invention New Discoveries Original Thought Discovery And Invention

Book:Magic of Believing

Source: Magic of Believing

“Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.”

Thinking Real Opportunity Wealth Effort Poverty Materials Achievement Overcoming Mere Acknowledge Disgrace

Book:The History of the Peloponnesian War

Source: The History of the Peloponnesian War

“We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.”

World Stills War Turns Materials Achievement Material World

Book:The death of tragedy

Source: The death of tragedy

“If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary requisite of civilization and material well-being. All civilizations have up to now been based on private property. Only nations committed to the principle of private property have risen above penury and produced science, art, and literature. There is no experience to show that any other social system could provide mankind with any of the achievements of civilization.”

“To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.”

Way Doubt Cutting Materials Achievement Reflection Fellows Busy Affair Relief Throat Razors

Book:The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

Source: The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

“The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.”

Humans States Character Might Values Wealth Moral Military Materials Prove Achievement Israel Prove It Human Values Moral Character Material Wealth

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance to deadlines, irritation with materials or surroundings, distraction over the achievements of others - indeed as anything that keeps you from giving your work your best shot. What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit.”

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.”

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Author:Karl Taylor Compton

“Some people say that the West has a cruel history. These people also may see the achievements of Western countries - in terms of the economy, education, health, and social achievements - as a result of exploitation of poorer countries, including Arab countries. Western nations get rich by using resources such as Arab oil. Meanwhile, the countries supplying them raw materials remain poor. Due to such injustices, jealousies are created.”

“When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action or the superior wisdom of a few, but of that system of competition and free enterprise, rewarding success and penalising failure, which enables every individual to participate by his private decisions in shaping the future of his society.”

Looks Government Action Individual Decision Results Materials Achievement Competition West Superiors Enterprise Compulsion Astonishing Free Enterprise Shaping The Future

Author:Enoch Powell

“The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.”

Artist Culture Literature Individual Term Wealth Quality Military Poet Materials Civilization Achievement Philosopher Prosperity Representatives Military Power Material Wealth

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.”

Culture Wealth Justice Materials Achievement Diversity Social Justice Ancient China Denied Unseen Greece Ancient Greece Material Wealth

Book:Here I Stand

Source: Here I Stand

“One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.”

World Giving Has Beens Science Century Materials Prove Achievement Aim Physics Twentieth Century Unattainable Material World Physical Science

Book:The Ascent of Man

Source: The Ascent of Man

“The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.”

Mother Challenges Poverty Materials Achievement Raised Illness Uncommon Chronic Illness Single Mother

Book:My Beloved World

Source: My Beloved World

“Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.”

Different Self States Wealth Materials Achievement Enlightenment Rewards Greed Obstacles Immortality Virtuous Self Centered Attainment Material Wealth

Author:Laozi

“Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.”

“By and large, the Healing Dream is not the defender of our waking goals-material achievement, perfect romance, a modest niche in history-but an advocate-general for the soul, whose aims may be diametrically different... The nourishment of the dreamworld is a reciprocal affair: as we provide for it, it provides for us.”

May Different Soul Dream Romance Goal Perfect Healing Materials Achievement Aim Affair Waking Modest Niche Nourishment Defenders Reciprocal

Author:Marc Ian Barasch

“The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.”

World Political Literature Given Social Natural Liberty Economic Materials Citizens Civilization Achievement Benefits Gains Organization Prosperity Equality Social Organization

Book:The Promise of American Life

Source: The Promise of American Life

“There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether it is a material object, a physical state of being, a relationship, a condition, or a circumstance - at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good. And so, the standard of success in life is not the things or the money - the standard of success is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.”

Feels Believe Heart States Reason Life Is Joy Desire Conditions Objects Materials Amount Circumstances Achievement Standards Feel Good Feel Better Success In Life

Book:Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

Source: Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.”

“It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body.”

Mind Body Able Values Enjoy Materials Achievement Including

Book:High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way

Source: High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way