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Intention implies assuming you can and have every right to achieve your ambition and that you are powerful enough to make it happen.
There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.
There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.
One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?
Don't get stubborn, flow with the go. The key is to be open to unintended success. Some companies just can't take yes for an answer.
If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.
The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.
Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?
There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.
Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!
There is too much life to be lived for you to hit the snooze button. In fact, I believe it is 'seize the day', not 'snooze the day!'
I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
I come from a family of working people. My parents were Guatemalan immigrants who spent most of their lives in the service industry.
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Ask yourself, 'How did God bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings.
First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.
I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.
I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.
I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.
Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.
While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.
Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.
Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass!
Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.
If you touch the hearts of people you can get people's minds to change, but you have to show them the beauty of not aborting a life.
Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.
I'm an old-fashioned English lit. man. Straight down the line - it's George Eliot, it's Dickens, it's Dr. Johnson, it's Jane Austen.
I wouldn't suppose for one moment that there's a single one of Trump's voters that would be anything but confirmed in their beliefs.
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.
Often we don't change because we're afraid of what might happen. We cling to what we recognize, even if we are steeped in suffering.
For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.
Christianity is based on a book. It centers in a Person. It expresses itself in a message. It authenticates itself in an experience.