Demosthenes Quotes

As individuals, we must think nobler thoughts. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we do. If we think noble thoughts, if we encourage and cherish noble aspirations, there will be that radiation when we meet people, especially when we associate with them.

As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

How could a person possibly become what he is not thinking? Nor is any thought, when persistently entertained, too small to have its effect. The 'divinity that shapes our ends' is indeed ourselves.

You are now, and you do become, what you think about.

I'm a person who likes to give 100 percent to everything I do. I want to be the best at my job and as a mother.

Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.

Man is a thought-adventurer.

Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

Every time you speak right, you are training yourself to think right and act right.

There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

I'm honest. If people aren't putting in the effort, I will definitely let them know because I think that that can only help them.

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don't take myself too seriously.

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.

What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

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The new Galliano will be even bigger and better... I love working, it's my therapy. I can draw until four in the morning every night and not feel tired... I've come face to face with my demons, medicine and alcohol. I have rebuilt myself again.