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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability read more
There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led….
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake read more
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.
He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the read more
He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth whole years read more
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry
decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters
through a marsh, without either honour or observation.
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the read more
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
