Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to help you through life. Respect everyone.
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View all filters →Excitements, ideas, and efforts, in a word, are what carry us over the dam.
The transformation, moreover, is a chronic one: the new level of energy becomes permanent.
Ideal aspirations are not enough, when uncombined with pluck and will.
To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
Washington gives this as an expression his wife told him, not as his own.
The world does not count races and nations that have nothing.
This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being, and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.
Lesson Five, on initiative and leadership, where Hill puts procrastination first among the things to be got rid of.
Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
Many of us imprison ourselves in the narrow limited poverty thought, and then, like caged eagles trying in vain to get free, we beat out our wings against the bars we have ourselves put up.
Do not brood over the past, or dream of the future, but seize the instant and get your lesson from the hour.
Find happiness in ordinary things. The weight you carry on your shoulders needs a break. A little positivity in your thoughts will help you carry greater struggle with hope and energy. Noticing a little joyful thing when you are hurt helps a lot.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Durant's chapter on Aristotle, in the paragraph on the golden mean. Read in the 1927 printing of the 1926 book.
Wrongly attributed
This is Will Durant, not Aristotle, and Durant is not translating -- he is summarising the Nicomachean Ethics in his own words and marking the difference by dropping the quotation marks he uses on either side of it. The nearest thing in Aristotle is that virtues are formed in a man by his doing the actions, which Durant does put in quotation marks in the same sentence. The memorable half is the half Durant wrote. It usually circulates with a therefore inserted and the excellence turned into a moral instruction, neither of which is in the book.