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Ability
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
When ability exceeds ambition, or ambition exceeds ability, the likelihood of success is limited.
- Ralph Half
But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth.
- The Bible
, Deuteronomy 8:18
Achievement
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work. (from The Alchemist)
- Paul Coelho
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. (written by Eliot appearing in a book of poems by Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus, Black Sun Press, Paris: 1931)
- T.S. Eliot
Inspirational
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Alva Edison
Good things don't come to those who wait, they come to those who want something so bad, they can't wait for it.
- Ashton Kutcher
, Just Married (Movie)
There is no defeat except for those who give up.
- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Leadership
Leadership must be established from the top down.
- Sam Nunn
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
- Golda Meir
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Learning
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
- Professor Scott Elledge
Failing to plan is a plan to fail.
- Effie Jones
College life was born in revolt. Not just the insubordination inherent in youth, but a wave of violent, collective uprisings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the combined authority of college professors and presidents.
- Helen Horowitz
Other
There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.
- Elise Boulding
There is nothing we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
- Joseph Addison
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom
When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
- Confucius
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
- George Santayana
When in doubt, tell the truth.
- Mark Twain
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