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But still I say, do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.
Anna Sewell
/ Black Beauty
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Jane Addams
/ Democracy and Social Ethics
Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade… Let us say to the people not ‘How much have you got?’ but ‘How best can we serve you?’
Norman Bethune
/ Statements by Norman Besheun on healthcare
I will drink life to the lees.
Alfred Tennyson
/ Ulysses (1833)
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
/ The Ladder of St. Augustine (1850)
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same.
Rudyard Kipling
/ If—
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith
/ The Wealth of Nations
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
/ Rasselas
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
/ You Learn by Living
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
/ Adam Bede
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass
/ Autobiography
A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit.
Inazō Nitobe
/ Bushido: The Soul of Japan
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
Beatrix Potter
/ Attributed
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
Christina Rossetti
/ Time Flies: A Reading Diary (1885)
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci
/ Attributed
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Marcus Aurelius
/ Meditations (Book V)
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca
/ Attributed (source uncertain)
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
Aristotle
/ Nicomachean Ethics (Book II)
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato
/ The Republic (Book II)
All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu
/ The Art of War
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