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Towfiqul Islam TowfiqMost people are looking for a shortcut.
Meanwhile, the people making real progress are quietly doing the work.
Day after day.
Month after month.
Consistency still wins.
WIST QuotationsA quotation from Baltasar Gracian
The way to quiet the turbulence of a mob is to withdraw your hand, and let it quiet itself; to concede today, may be the best way to succeed tomorrow.[Sea modo de sosegar vulgares torbellinos el alzar mano y dejar sosegar; ceder al tiempo ahora será vencer después.]
Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 138 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]
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Gracián, Baltasar - The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 138 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)] | WIST Quotations
The way to quiet the turbulence of a mob is to withdraw your hand, and let it quiet itself; to concede today, may be the best way to succeed tomorrow. [Sea modo de sosegar vulgares torbellinos el alzar mano y dejar sosegar; ceder al tiempo ahora será vencer después.] (Source…
People love the idea of success.
Few love the process required to earn it.
The boring days.
The quiet work.
The repetition.
That’s the real price.
Nobody talks about the power of staying quiet and working.
No announcements.
No fake hype.
Just execution behind the scenes.
Then one day, people call it “sudden success.”
The only real shortcut?
Sticking with it longer than everyone else.
No hacks.
No secrets.
Just showing up when others disappear.
That’s how you win.
The last quality, perseverance, I particularly respect: it is the very hinge of all virtues. — On looking over the world, the cause of nine parts in ten of the lamentable failures which occur in men’s undertakings & darken and degrade so much of their history, lies not in the want of talents or the will to use them, but in the vacillating and desultory mode of using them — in flying from object to object, in starting away at each little disgust, and thus applying the force which might conquer any one difficulty to a series of difficulties so large that no human force can conquer them.
The smallest brook on earth, by continual running, has hollowed out for itself a considerable valley to flow in: the wildest tempest, by its occasional raging, over-turns a few cottages, uproots a few trees, and leaves after a short space no mark behind it. Commend me therefore to the Dutch virtue of perseverance! Without it all the rest are little better than fairy gold, which glitters in your purse, but when taken to the market proves to be — slate or cinders.
The smallest brook on earth, by continual running, has hollowed out for itself a considerable valley to flow in: the wildest tempest, by its occasional raging, over-turns a few cottages, uproots a few trees, and leaves after a short space no mark behind it. Commend me therefore to the Dutch virtue of perseverance! Without it all the rest are little better than fairy gold, which glitters in your purse, but when taken to the market proves to be — slate or cinders.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Letter (1822-03-15) to John Carlyle
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Carlyle, Thomas - Letter (1822-03-15) to John Carlyle | WIST Quotations
The last quality, perseverance, I particularly respect: it is the very hinge of all virtues. -- On looking over the world, the cause of nine parts in ten of the lamentable failures which occur in men's undertakings & darken and degrade so much of their history, lies not in the…
Success online isn’t complicated.
It’s just consistency over time.
Post. Learn. Improve. Repeat.
Most people quit in the middle.
That’s why most people never see results.
Stay longer. Win bigger.
CBC WindsorMayor pitches business leaders on Windsor's long game, with new vision for Windsor Arena
Mayor Drew Dilkens is assuring business leaders that the city's best days are ahead as he delivered the final State of the City address of his term on Wednesday.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/mayor-pitches-business-leaders-on-windsor-s-long-game-with-new-vision-for-windsor-arena-9.7157135?cmp=rss
Mayor Drew Dilkens is assuring business leaders that the city's best days are ahead as he delivered the final State of the City address of his term on Wednesday.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/mayor-pitches-business-leaders-on-windsor-s-long-game-with-new-vision-for-windsor-arena-9.7157135?cmp=rss
Emberhart“Overnight success” is usually years of invisible work.
Progress hides… until it doesn’t.
Are you trusting the process—or quitting too early? https://youtu.be/82hLh4R5g2I
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Progress hides… until it doesn’t.
Are you trusting the process—or quitting too early? https://youtu.be/82hLh4R5g2I
#SuccessMindset #Emberhart #LongGame #KeepGoing #GrowthJourney #Resilience
