Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.
Santiago Ramón y CajalTags: science inspirational pain love history humanity time death opposite judgement struggle triumph heroes effort scholars sacrifice contrast prestige ruins extreme patriot crown desecration corpses pedestal benefit statue
When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.
SophoclesTags: persistence perseverance failure effort
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.
John PiperDetermination, effort, and practice are rewarded with success.
Mary Lydon SimonsenTags: success practice determination effort mary reward lydon simonsen
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.
Chuck PalahniukTags: effort original known ever
When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129)
Hilary AustenTags: persistence journey madness genius effort madman conventional-wisdom accepted-mastery extreme-originality
Es saku jums jau dienas simt un piecas - lai puķi dabūtu ir jānoliecas.
Imants ZiedonisTags: effort
There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.
Terry GoodkindTags: individuality liberty freedom society effort uniformity
There is never a traffic jam created from people going the extra mile
Jeff DixonGift ain't what you take by effort,
as swag ain't what you worthy have.
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