Thought is useful when it motivates for action, and a hindrance when it substitutes for action.
— Bill Raeder

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology.  It means the mind sees “what is” and learns from “what is.”
— J. Krishnamurti

The whole point of building a larger net worth is to provide the wherewithal for living expenses while you do what you most want to do.
— George Kinder, The Seven Stages of Money Maturity

One of the best ways to procrastinate and deflate real motivation is to create big goals that are interpreted as “long term.”  As soon as we set these goals or identify these kinds of projects, we tend to feel smug and self-congratulatory and pseudocomplete about them, just because we’ve committed to them, and our drive […]

It’s great to be motivated, but if you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re basically nothing more than a really fired up idiot.
— Steve, financial blogger @ AdventureMoney // “Investment or Money Down the Toilet”

All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.  So many people get to the end of their lives wondering what could have been — don’t let this happen to you.
— Anthony Robbins, Awaken the Giant Within

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation.  It is common sense to take a method and try it:  If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.  But above all, try something.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 22, 1932

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.  Comes into us at midnight very clean.  It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.  It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
— John Wayne

All of us who are intimately familiar with over-spending know that it is very easy to five-and-ten-dollar ourselves into oblivion. The good news is that you can five-and-ten-dollar yourself right back to financial health, too.
— Mary Hunt, The Cheapskate Monthly Money Makeover

Getting rid of debt is a huge relief — unlike anything else I’ve ever really felt in my life.  And the great thing about it, which I noticed pretty quickly, was that once I had a written plan and put it into action, I got a little jolt of energy every month.  Just looking at those decreasing […]

If you know the point of balance, you can settle the details.  If you can settle the details, you can stop running around.  Your mind will become calm.  If you mind becomes calm, you can think in front of a tiger.  If you can think in front of a tiger, you will surely succeed.
— Mencius

Finish each day and be done with it.  You have done what you could.  Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.  Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
— Thomas Edison

When you practice the Vacuum Principle, you evaluate what you have, which might be anything from an old tie to a television set.  You ask:  Do I really need this?  Do I enjoy and take pleasure from it?  If the answer is no, get rid of it:  Give it away, sell it, or throw it […]

If you really do struggle with debt, then the most important thing you can do is DON’T TAKE OUT ANY MORE DEBT. Cut up your credit cards immediately. As you pay each one off, cancel it. Don’t equivocate. You don’t need them. Nobody needs a credit card. And if you’ve had problems with them in […]