Wisdom Quotes for Personal Growth and Daily Success

Matthew principle

There's a statement in the New Testament, it's called the Matthew principle and economists use it to describe how the economy in the world works - "To those who have everything more will be given, from those who have nothing everything will be taken". It's like very pessimistic in some sense because it means that as you start to fail you fail more and more rapidly but it also means that as you start to succeed you succeed more and more rapidly

If you lost and blame referees

If you lose the match and then whine, what you have done is sacrifice the higher order principle of constant improvement of your own skills. Because you should be analysing the loss and saying - the reason I lost insofar as it's relevant to this particular time and place is the insufficiencies I manifested that defeated me and I need to track those insufficiencies so that I can rectify them in the future. And if I am blaming it on you or the referees or the situation that I am not taking responsibility and I am not pushing myself forward

what scientific truth tells you is what things are, but genuine religious truth tells you how you should act

The great athlete and the great person is not only someone who's exceptionally skilled at what they do but who's trying to expand their skills at all times and the attempt to expand their skills at all times is even more important than the fact that they're great to begin with because the trajectory is so important