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- Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
- Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
- The shortest answer is the doing the thing.
- Author Unknown
- I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
- Henry Steele Commager
- People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.
- J. William Galbraith
- Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.
- John Oliver Hobbes
- Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
- Alvin Toffler
- Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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