Unleash Your Willpower: Quotes to Ignite Your Determination - page 49
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
Thornton Wilder
With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled.
Robert Genn
After taking risk into account, do more managers than you’d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'
Eugene Fama
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.
I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.
Garry Winogrand
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.
John of Salisbury
Closed doors are a test of our faith. Keep moving forward, being your best, living with determination and faith. When you do, you'll see amazing changes all around you.
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams
If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.
Chris Rock
Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
Norman Cousins
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.
Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.
Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.
Ludwig Borne
