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