All The Adversity I’ve Had In My Life, All My Troubles And Obstacles, Have Strengthened Me.... You May Not Realize It When It Happens, But A Kick In The Teeth May Be The Best Thing In The World For You.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous.
Unless India Stands Up To The World:earth_asia:, No One Will Respect Us. In This World:earth_asia:, Fear Has No Place. Only Strength Respects Strength.