There will be times you make decisions that actually detract from growth.
It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Regrets don't help anything.
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.
James Allen says 'We curse the effect and nourish the cause.' The guy puts sand in his shoes and he can hardly walk and you ask why would you do that? Why would we wish for it to change, hope for it to change, but all the while resisting change?
There have been moments in the past where I haven't made it easy for myself.
The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production
I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.
