Quote from Seneca:
"When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her."
Simimal Quotes:
Seneca
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
Seneca
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.
Byron Katie
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will...
Seneca
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
Napoleon Hill
You can be anything you want to be, if you only believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
Seneca
How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
John Eliot, Ph.D.
Confidence is a resolute state of mind by which you believe nothing is impossible.
Seneca
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
Seneca
If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people's opinions, you will never be rich.
