If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want will be the sacrifice.
~ unknown
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Sacrifice →
Human morality →
A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.
~ Winston Churchill
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The mundane →
Everyone here has done this, of course. But it hasn’t yet been part of you graduates’ actual life routine, day after week after month after year.
But it will be. And many more dreary, annoying, seemingly meaningless routines besides. But that is not the point. The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing is gonna come in.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Persistence →
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
~ Calvin Coolidge
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Men won’t know →
If boys don’t learn, men won’t know.
~ Douglas Wilson
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Opportunity →
You know what lies outside your comfort zone?
Opportunity.
~ unknown
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Traitors in our midst →
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
~ C.S. Lewis
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Progress and change →
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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I shall succeed →
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
~ James A. Garfield
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Commitment means →
Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.
~ unknown
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