Quotes January 17, 2019

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly … and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.
Murasaki Shikibu,
novelist, in The Tale of Genji
 
 
 
 
[W]hen you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
Neil Gaiman,
author, in “Coraline”
 
 
 
 
The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.
Pablo Casals,
cellist and composer
 
 
 
 
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck,
writer
 
 
 
 
“There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.”
Beverly Sills
 
 
 
 
“It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
“There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can’t. Yet, in your belief you’ll find the strength, you’ll find the ability, to do it anyway.”
Ralph Marston
 
 
 
 
“None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.”
Thomas J. Watson
 
 
 
 
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”
Oprah Winfrey
 
 
 
 
“There is a comfort in the strength of love: it will make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.”
William Wordsworth
 
 
 
 
I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocal decision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Once you’ve accepted your flaws no one cause them against you.
Unknown