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- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Washington Gladden
It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."
- J. Harold Wilkins
The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.
- Thomas N. Carruther
Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) American Inventor
The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.
- Unknown
All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that "luck" is most often being prepared to take advantage of a situation.
- William H. Rehnquist, (1924-) American Supreme Court Chief Justice
I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it.
- Motto of Francois Constantin, co-founder of watchmaker Vacheron and Constantin.
Do better if possible, which always is possible.
- Robert Schuller (1926-) American Minister, Evangelist
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
- Kevin Costner (1955-) American Actor, Producer and Director
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
- Elen Macarthur, quoted after breaking all single-handed woman's records and finishing second in round the world yacht race. February 11th, 2001
If I have any message from this then it is if you really have a dream and you want to achieve it then you can and it really is possible."
- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973) American Writer
A beautiful child only a few weeks old suddenly dies of a strange pneumonia in its little bed; cancer or rabies brings anguished death to the innocent - and the needed; normally beneficent fire leaps out in red anarchy and incinerates a family in the night; earthquakes devastate Lisbon or San Francisco; pride of power puts the pistol to the heads of thousands of the noblest sons of Poland in Katyn Forest and tries to shovel them down under from the knowledge of man; Keats dies abandoned by the shallow futile woman he loved, and seemingly ignored and lacerated by the men who rule his day; right seems forever on the scaffold and wrong forever on the throne: How, then, in such a world, can there be a God both all-powerful and all-good?
- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973) American Writer
The love that blossomed like a flower in the lost beautiful child; the reason and the will-to-good that patiently seek the antidote to cancer or rabies; the heroism that risks fire to save a child, or that will not recant or crawl with the pistol at its head in Katyn Forest… how, if the world is only and all random, malignant, evil, do such things blossom out of the omnipotent mud?
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English Novelist
I don't know where this here science is to stop, mind you; that's what bothers me - Sketches by Boz, 1839
- Dante Alighieri De vulgari eloquentia
This shall be the new light, the new
sun, which rises when the worn-out one shall set, and shall give light to them who are in shadow and darkness because of the old sun, which did not enlighten them.
- Paul Johnson, writing about the artist Donatello, in
He was serving his art and his God in the way that his genius - not society or any other authority - dictated.
- John Hibben, president of Princeton University, 1913 graduation address
You, enlightened, self-sufficient, self-governed, endowed with gifts above your fellows, the world expects you to produce as well as to consume, to add to and not to subtract from its store of good, to build up and not to tear down, to ennoble and not degrade….
The time is short, the opportunity is great; therefore, crowd the hours with the best that is in you.
- Jack Nicholson, actor
I could own pieces of teams I like. I know how much money I make. But I need entertainment; I do not need money.
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