Mildred H. McAfee famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.
-- Mildred H. McAfee

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Being a woman is interesting, but it shouldnâ€™t stop you from being a person.
-- Mildred H. McAfee

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[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.
-- Mildred H. McAfee

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Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.
Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("Ã©tant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.
Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation
The experience youâ€™ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.
A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes.
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

Mildred H. McAfee famous quotes

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