The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.
You do not grow stronger by accident - you grow stronger by intention.
Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly - so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible.
No man ever became wise by chance.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.
Actions should speak louder than words.
One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.
Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.
Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.
Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.
