Chaves Quotes & Sayings

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economy system. — Tim Kreider

For the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion. — Alice Foote MacDougall

To be happy, fulfilled, and to achieve success and prosperity, discover your talents, and then use them to accomplish your purpose, regardless of what happens around. — Mauricio Chaves Mesen

It is life, which goes on, while death is just an incident. — Aniruddha Sastikar

Success is a plant that needs to be watered every day. Without water; if you fail to tend to it, it dies. And on that waterless soil, from the withered stalks of abandoned success, almost imperceptibly, the weed of failure is born ... — Mauricio Chaves Mesen

Watching that video was like seeing my own life threatened. If Imani were taken from me, there would be no reason for me to continue. I fought to open my eyes for one reason and one reason only, for Imani. We are bound so closely that neither one can survive without the other; a fact that I know but she hasn't figured out yet. — Emerson Rose

Saving entails sacrifice; maybe that's why it brings rewards. Those that save always have. If tomorrow you face a problem -you lose your job or your business, you know you can survive until the situation improves or you start another business, this time with firm foundations. However those that do not save ... — Mauricio Chaves Mesen

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You are full of skills, talents and potential!
Your purpose is too important to doubt whether you're equipped for success.
The Creator did the most difficult part: he made you perfect.
Your ancestors did their part, by surviving, improving, learning ...
You have it easy: you just have to use what was given to you!
Your duty is to use your talents!
You can, with your own effort, clarity of objectives, and applying certain immutable laws and principles of success, turn on your great computer and program it to achieve the greatness you want and CAN achieve. — Mauricio Chaves Mesen

Surround yourself with snakes, and they will poison you. Surround yourself with eagles, and you will learn to fly to the heavens. — Mauricio Chaves Mesen

In every failure, there's the seed to even greater success. However, people waste their time complaining, instead of looking for the seed among the rubble of what was. — Mauricio Chaves Mesen

Sometimes, we try to run so fast that we can't see the dangers until we have them before us. We don't see the tiger hiding in the trees until it is about to eat us. Or we run pass the next opportunity without paying attention. — Mauricio Chaves Mesen

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states. — Milton Friedman

The idea is to write so that people hear it, and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart." ~Maya Angelou — C.S. Lakin

Cash is king. No matter how many good opportunities come your way, do not invest all your cash. If you run out of reserves, the smallest or foolish of things may bring you down. Companies with millions in assets have gone bankrupt because they cannot make a $25,000 payment. — Mauricio Chaves Mesen

Accept success as a good thing, and invite it into your life.
Set today as the starting point for a new life.
Every race starts at one point.
Every building starts with one stone.
Every great work, every dream, every great achievement starts somewhere.
The march of a thousand miles begins with one step, said Confucius.
Everyone, absolutely everyone, have to start the walk somewhere.
It does not matter where you are right now.
It does not matter if you are a student, a professional, a housewife, a peasant coming to the city looking for a better life.
It does not matter if you are unemployed and out of work (or as I like to refer to it: awaiting for a really wonderful and transformative life experience that I was not having in my former employment).
What matters is not if you have a lot or have a little; but what you decide to do with what you have. — Mauricio Chaves Mesen

The noiseless wheels of my car
rush with a crackling sound over
dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling. — William Carlos Williams

I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment in Arlington, where I grew up. I got a telescope at age 10, which is pretty normal, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I had already seen a lot of cheesy sci-fi films. — Seth Shostak

Romance is a bubble which will burst. True love is a seed which will grow into a tree, something strong and beautiful to lean on. — Loretta Livingstone

Truth is there is not a right or predetermined age for success; only people who finally decide to succeed. Age is in your mind! — Mauricio Chaves Mesen

Refuse a life of lack and poverty!
The Creator made you perfect, and put everything, EVERYTHING, EVERY SINGLE THING you may need WITHIN YOU!
Discover and bring out all that is good in you!
Use it to create a better life for yourself, for your children, for the generations to come.
Claim your piece of life abundance!
It is your right! — Mauricio Chaves Mesen

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination. — John Irving

memories happen when we least expect them. — Jose Chaves