Quote from Rudyard Kipling:
I kept six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.
Simimal Quotes:
John Eliot, Ph.D.
Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history’s greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, “I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue.”
Walt Whitman
In the faces of men and women, I see God.
James Allen
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.
John J. McCloy
Boys go to Washington to be somebody…men go to do something.
David McCullough
With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be “cool but determined” he had told the men before the battle, when spirits were high. Now, in the face of catastrophe, he was demonstrating what he meant by his own example. Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.
Confucius
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead quiet lives of desperation.
Andrew Cohen
As far as I’m concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor—you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see.
Henry David Thoreau
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wander at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
Socrates
Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
Walter Russell
The personal ego must be suppressed and replaced with the ‘universal ego.’