Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. William Butler Yeats MEANING OF THIS QUOTE Almost all of us have grown up learning that we must make the most of the opportunities that come our way. This is actually good advice, only it suffers from a couple Read more…
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. Lance Armstrong Failures are an inevitable part of any worthwhile journey, so much so that you’re probably aiming below your potential if you haven’t had any setbacks along the way. Unfortunately, pain is an inescapable part of failing.
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch One of the greatest support systems in a person’s life are their friends. And regardless of its clichéd connotations, the proverb that a man is known by the company he keeps is Read more…
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes Our mind is like a blank piece of paper when we are born. Whatever we learn in our formative years stays with us for the rest of our lives. And that is where our education plays a key role. It leaves Read more…
Every man dies. Not every man really lives. William Wallace Regardless of the cultural and religious beliefs about the life after death, the general consensus around the world is that the life we live here is transient. This fact gets increasingly conspicuous as we grow older.
Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. Raymond Mortimer Tact and diplomacy are skills that do not just come in handy in business, but in life as well. Without a confident persuasive technique, it is hard to get your way in a world as complex as ours.
Jumping to conclusions seldom leads to happy landings. Steve Siporin As humans, our instinctive response to tricky situations is to trust our senses. We form our judgments based on what our eyes see and our ears hear. We regard our senses as infallible. However, things are rarely so straightforward.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway Wisdom and intelligence are coveted, rare virtues. These are mostly acquired with age and experience, though it isn’t impossible to get there with hard work and a willingness to learn. However, as is the case with the excess of anything, over-intelligence too has Read more…
We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. Friedrich Koenig Our minds are designed and hardwired to be goal-oriented; we constantly need a purpose in our lives to keep going. While this may not be something Read more…
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. Benjamin Mays ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.’ Most of us are familiar with this golden line from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem In Memoriam A.H.H. However, is Read more…
