#life

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#wisdom #life

Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about. ↗

— Leila Sales

#caring #life #people #relationships #business

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#business #continue #fail #good #our

Lifting and Leaning There are two kinds of people on earth today, Just two kinds of people, no more, I say. Not the good and the bad, for 'tis well understood The good are half bad and the bad are half good. Not the happy and sad, for the swift-flying years Brings each man his laughter and each man his tears. Not the rich and the poor, for to count a man's wealth You must first know the state of his conscience and health. Not the humble and proud, for in life's busy span He who puts on vain airs is not counted a man. No! The two kinds of people on earth I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean. Wherever you go you will find the world's masses Are ever divided in just two classes. And, strangely enough, you will find, too, I ween, There is only one lifter to twenty who lean. In which class are you? Are you easing the load Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the road? Or are you a leaner who lets others bear Your portion of worry and labor and care? ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#business

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#life-and-living #business

A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life #living #love #romance #business

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#corruption #court-system #courts #ethical-behaviour #ethics

Our lives are businesses that are sometimes run by idiots. ↗

— Patrick Reinken

#life-and-living #mistakes #stupidity #business

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman ↗

— Huston Smith

#error #life #mindfulness #business

ليس كافيًا أن تكون مشغولًا. فكذلك النمل. السؤال هو: بماذا نحن مشغولون ؟ ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#full-life #priorities #business