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No crooked table legs or ill-fitting drawers ever, I dare swear, came out of the carpenter’s shop at Nazareth. -
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“He wanted Everest in a day; if it took two, he lost interest.” -
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I suspect that this is the most important thing I’ve said in all my interviews and talks as well as in this book. It’s a truth that applies to more than writing. It applies to anything that is importa... -
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In an institutionalized church, the good has become the enemy of the best, and activity has choked out productivity. -
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There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one’s squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world. -
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Only faith survives; faith which is not a work, not even a negative work; not an achievement, not even the achievement of humility. . . . Faith is the ground, the new order, the light. . . . Faith is ... -
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather have these because we have acted rightly; these virtues are formed in man by d... -
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What do you want to achieve? Greater riches? Cheaper chicken? A happier life, a longer life? Is it power over your neighbors that you are after? Are you only running away from your death? Or are you s... -
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -
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Many economic fallacies are due to conceiving of economic activity as a zero-sum contest, in which what is gained by one is lost by another. This in turn is often due to ignoring the fact that wealth ... -
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Qui cessat esse melior cessat esse bonus (He who ceases to be better ceases to be good) -
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“If one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes. To be good — many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm — and... -
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But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in this prison, or in hundreds of others just like it. My life of success was not what made this morning s... -
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In normal life one is not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life. One easily overestimates the importance of one’s own acts and deed... -
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None climbs so high as he who knows not whither he is going. -
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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo. -
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. -
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To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. -
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. -
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. -
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. -
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Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual. -
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With vainglory, we crave notice of our achievements with pride, we take full credit for the progress we have made and do not think that God has been involved at all, let alone been our indispensible h... -
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. -
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There are two tragedies in lie. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it. -
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There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish. -
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done. -
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Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. A... -
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. -
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In the Christian subculture, there is an unspoken standard, a notorious goal to “win the contest.” It’s there, the contest. We don’t say it out loud, because it sounds ludicrous spoken into the open a...
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