words of wisdom

“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.”
— Alexander Hamilton

“Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.”
— Susana Martinez

“Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.”
— Susana Martinez

“My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.”
— Charlie Chaplin

“Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.”
— Nikola Tesla

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
— Steve Martin

“Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it’s contagious.”
— James Stewart

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
— Johnny Cash

“If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.”
— Shakti Gawain

“You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
— Edwin Louis Cole