Our virtues and our failures are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

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"as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."

- Nikola Tesla

Inspiration

"I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one."

- Nikola Tesla

Success

"Be alone, that is the secret of invention; Be alone—that is when ideas are born."

- Nikola Tesla

Creativity

"Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born."

- Nikola Tesla

Creativity

"I don’t care that they stole my idea… I care that they don’t have any of their own."

- Nikola Tesla

Creativity

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity