Quotes in this theme
Society and the World
G. K. Chesterton
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
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George Bernard Shaw
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
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John Stuart Mill
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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Thomas Carlyle
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
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Thomas Carlyle
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
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Ludwig von Mises
Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.
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Elbert Hubbard
A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as, or more, than he has contributed to him.
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Elbert Hubbard
A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as, or more, than he has contributed to him.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them, it cannot live.
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Theodore Roosevelt
It is only through work and strife that either nation or individual moves on to greatness. The great man is always the man of mighty effort, and usually the man whom grinding need has trained to mighty effort.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
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Thomas Edison
The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.
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