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- Swami Vivekanand

My fav quote of all time:

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”

Anything worth doing, and doing properly will have barriers and hurdles you’ll need to over come. That’s what makes life fun. I believe that if your not facing barriers and hurdles on a regular basis, your not pushing yourself (or your business) hard enough.

Maybe it’s about time I wrote a blog posts on the hurdles I face (there are so many)…

Thomas Alva Edison:

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas Alva Edison:

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Jefferson:

I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.

Rita Mae Brown:

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Mark Twain:

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn’t have done it. Who was it who said, “Blessed is the man who has found his work”? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work–not somebody else’s work. The work that is really a man’s own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man’s work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great.

I especially love the wisdom from Henry David Thoreau, @Thom, from Gautama Buddha via @Tyler, and from William H. Murray via @John Berns. Gotta conquer the self and aim for complete commitment in order to seek great success! Cheers guys.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

William H. Murray, from The Scottish Himalayan Expedition.

That quote has launched me on at least two big adventures.