He that cannot reason is a fool.
He that will not is a bigot.
He
that dare not is a slave.
We
have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one
another.
- Jonathan Swift
There
are two techniques that every man and woman needs to live life.
One is the technique of volition, of trying hard, putting your back into
it and doing your best. That's output
. . . The other is the philosophy of intake, of spiritual hospitality, of the
receptivity of the soul to the oversoul, of the open door that lets the highest
in. That's intake.
One is like the branches of a tree, spreading out.
The other is like roots, digging in.
Multitudes of people in our modern world are using only the first
technique. They are trying hard,
and then someday, inevitably, like everybody else, they run into an experience
that they can't handle simply by trying hard—a
great grief, for example. Try
hard? You need intake, too.
You need sustenance, you need invigoration from beyond yourself.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
To me faith is
not just a noun but also a verb.
- Jimmy Carter
Regard
your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of—for
credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it,
but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it
again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire
to appear.
Good name in man and
woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands:
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.
Always
bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any
other one
thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
You
may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine
to be something in the world, and you will be something.
"I cannot" never accomplished anything; "I will try"
has wrought wonders.
With
freedom comes responsibility.
- Nicholas Pratt
I
believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an
obligation; every possession, a duty.
We
now have the result of a huge experiment in human nature that teaches a critical
lesson about social progress. The
lesson emerges from the 1996 welfare reform, the mandated end of bilingual
education in California, and seven years of school reform in Texas.
It is this: if you demand more of people—if you make them more
responsible for their own behavior—you will get more from them.
Their lives will improve.
- Robert J. Samuelson, Writer. Newsweek,
September 4, 2000
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston
Churchill
Man must cease attributing his problems to his
environment, and learn again to exercise his will—his personal responsibility.
- Albert
Schweitzer
Be
wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield
In
taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is
superior.
- Francis Bacon
Live
well. It is the greatest revenge.
- The Talmud
If
you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
It
requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great
fortune; and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
- Meyer A. Rothschild
Neither
let mistakes nor wrong directions, of which every man, in his studies and
elsewhere, falls into many, discourage you.
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more
and more right.
First
weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
- Helmuth von Moltke
Take
calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
- George S. Patton
To
win without risk is to triumph without glory.
- Pierre Corneille
I
have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- William Butler Yeats, from He wishes for the cloths of heaven
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