"Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from ease and the consciousness of inherited wealth. Whatever lessens in a young man the feeling that he must make his way in the world cripples his chance of success. Poverty has ever been the priceless spur that has goaded man up to his own loaf."

-- Orison Swett Marden

#Ambition Quotes #Men Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Everybody wants to be loved by everybody, and they'll do everything they can to be loved, including not be who they really are, from person to person.”
“I like Barack Obama as a person and I think he is a sincere man. I think he and his wife conducted themselves magnificently in the White House. There's not a better role model for American kids to watch Barack and Michelle Obama, so all of that is off-the-chart positive.”
“We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.”
“There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist”
“These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.”
“If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson”
“Providence creates an unfolding situation that is exactly what the person needs, although not always what he may think he wants or desires. This is called luck by those who are unaware of the workings of higher Worlds. Providence also creates very difficult circumstances to reveal or dissolve a fixed situation ... This is called bad luck or later, A Blessing in Disguise.”
“Violence is the instinctive response to fear.”

Source : Margaret Millar (2015). “Vanish in an Instant”, p.71, Soho Press

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