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Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.
Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.
It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too read more
It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he
does when he's absolutely free to read more
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he
does when he's absolutely free to choose.
What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill you
makes you stronger.].
What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill you
makes you stronger.].
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing
research.
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing
research.
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up read more
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.
The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of
comfort.
The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of
comfort.