“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.“~Phillips BrooksTo be strong is to be powerful. The use of this power, however, can become effective or efficient in a specific direction, only if it is combined with courage and wisdom. Continue reading “Strength, Courage and Wisdom”
“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.”
–Anne Sullivan
There is a certain charm to starting something new and fresh. The feel is great and the suspense of how its all going to turn out keeps you hooked. Thats exactly how i feel right now about my life and about my blog. Continue reading “My New Beginnings”
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”~Sir Francis Bacon~
A man seldom fails in life because he doesnt have the ability to succeed. Most often he fails because he uses too little of the power which lies dormant within him or he does not make use of his powers when the opportunity was ripe. Let us not permit the great sleeping forces within us to remain asleep. It is a catastrophe that the great opportunities of this world are sometimes not embraced by men and women of vision, insight and ambition.
It is also tragic to let talent go undeveloped-to live with unfulfilled ambitions, unrealized dreams, doors of opportunities that remain unopened, so long as the hinges are actually rusted. Continue reading “Grabbing Opportunities and Moving Ahead”
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