It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.
Achieving Success: Inspiring Quotes to Guide You - page 173
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
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Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.
Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas.
Don Yaeger
My impression is that Putin feels that he can basically manipulate the West to do what he ultimately wants to achieve, and that he feels he's gotten away with it so far, and that all he has to do is basically play the same game.
Leon Panetta
Successful people are people of (mo.ti.va.tion), motivation, and action.
Jon Jones
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
Andrew Young
The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian roots, thereby becoming rootless itself.
Walter Kasper
We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.
George Steiner
When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.
In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.
Charles A. Murray
