"We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction that if we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."

Kelly, Petra on ecology   

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"Instinct is untaught ability."

Bain, Alexander on instinct
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"Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is."

Hartmann, Van on instinct
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"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God."

Huxley, Aldous on sacrifice
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"Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on manners
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"The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."

Eliot, T. S. on art   

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

Hill, Napoleon on sacrifice
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"Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach."

Lippmann, Walter on prophecy
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"All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence."

Waitley, Denis on learning   

"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."

Kennedy, John F. on expectation
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"Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age."

Fredrich on thoughts and thinking   

"Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech."

Rivarol, Antoine on speech
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"Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense."

Liebig on truth
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"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."

Evenus on action
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"CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things."

Levitt, Theodore on innovation
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"Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice."

Thoreau, Henry David on knowledge   

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"Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops."

Watson, Thomas J. on progress   

"Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."

Johnson, Samuel on concentration   

"To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself."

Otto, Herbert A. on goals   

"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."

Milton, John on prayer
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"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."

Cooley, Charles Horton on heroes and heroism   

"The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, Thus far and no farther."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on possibilities   

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"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."

Allen, James on greatness
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"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."

Conrad, Joseph on ambition
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"Our aspirations are our possibilities."

Browning, Robert on possibilities   

"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."

Arendt, Hannah on novelty   

"Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on vision   

"A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... .this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons."

Bach, Richard on potential
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"The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"What is research, but a blind date with knowledge."

Henry, William on research
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"Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities."

Unknown, Source on faith
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"A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide."

Butler, Samuel on understanding   

"In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace."

Hecht, Ben on peace
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"Men freely believe that which they desire."

Caesar, Julius on belief
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"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."

La Fontaine, Jean De on belief   

"[Dancing is] A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

Shaw, George Bernard on dance and dancing
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"Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness."

Unknown, Source on desire   

"All men by nature desire to know."

Aristotle on nature
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