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• "For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases or preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues...
  
  This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended."

  ~ Aristotle Quotes from The Nicomachean Ethics

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Temperance, Serve

• When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

  ~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Failure, Serve

• To govern was to serve, not to rule.

  ~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Leadership, Serve

• You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

  ~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Learning, Success, Modesty, Serve

• Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers—show me yours—show me that it is possible—show me your achievement—and the knowledge will give me the courage for mine. Mallory (the young artist) to Roark in "The Fountainhead"

  ~ Ayn Rand Quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Vision, Purpose, Happiness, Knowledge, Achieve, Serve

• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

  We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

  You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

  It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.

  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  ~ Marianne Williamson Quotes from A Return to Love

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Risk, God, Talent, Fear, Power, People, Serve, Brilliant

• I was made a revolutionary in spite of myself… [A]ll creation presupposes as its origin a sort of appetite that is brought on by the foretaste of discovery. This foretaste of the creative art accompanies the intuitive grasp of an unknown entity that will not take definite shape except by the action of a constantly vigilant technique. This appetite that is aroused in me at the mere thought of putting in order musical elements that have attracted my attention is not at all a fortuitous thing like inspiration, but as habitual and periodic, if not constant, as a natural need... The very act of putting my work on paper, of, as we say, kneading the dough, is for me inseperable from the pleasure of creation. So far as I am concerned, I cannot seperate the spiritual effort from the psychological and physical effort; they confront me on the same level and do not present a hierarchy...What concerns us here is not imagination itself, but rather creative imagination: the facultyy that helps us to pass from the level of conception to the level of realization. In the course of my labors I suddenly stumble upon something unexpected. this unexpected element strikes me. I make note of it. At the proper time I put it to profitable use... The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation. And the true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note... The least accident holds his interest and guides his operations. If his finger slips, he will notice it; on occasion, he may draw profit from something unforeseen that a momentary lapse reveals to him. One does not contrive an accident: one observes it to draw inspiration therefrom.

  ~ Igor Stravinsky Quotes from Creators on Creating

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• It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself… Serve and thou shall be served.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Famous Quotes on: Sin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Life, Compensation, Try, Serve

• Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve.

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. Quotes from Overachievement

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• Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve.

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. Quotes from Overachievement

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