Motivational quotes

Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.

Valedictory address to the graduating class at the University of Pennsylvania, and the source of the word Osler made his motto.

Take no thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Osler's single piece of advice on method, given, he says, with the earnest conviction of its paramount influence on anything he had achieved.

Throw away, in the first place, all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well.

To the graduating class of the Army Medical School, Washington.

Let the day's work suffice; live for it, regardless of what the future has in store, believing that to-morrow should take thought for the things of itself.

To the students of the University of Toronto, on the safeguard against morbid apprehension about the future.

It is always the man who has tasted life who demands more of it.

On the correspondents who wanted to exceed an already full programme.

The brain can be trained, as the hand and eye can be trained; it can be made as obedient as a sporting dog, and by similar methods.

The secret of calm cheerfulness is kindliness; no person can be consistently cheerful and calm who does not consistently think kind thoughts.

There is no royal road to the control of the brain.

Bennett refusing, in the middle of a self-improvement book, to promise a shortcut.

He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.

The teacher encourages action despite uncertainty about conditions and outcomes.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

The teacher encourages action despite uncertainty about conditions and outcomes.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Wisdom sayings consider entrusted plans and the encouragement of pleasant words.

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

Wisdom sayings consider entrusted plans and the encouragement of pleasant words.