"Courage is required to make an initial thrust towards ones coveted goal, But even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve."

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Thomas S. Monson

#Goal Quotes #Effort Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.”
“All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions about man's ultimate destiny and the meaning of all history to which, as history, he can provide no answers. The answers belong to the realm of theology.”
“Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one anotherâ€™s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning oneâ€™s standards or oneâ€™s opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination.”
“Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!”
“I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.”
“When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.”
“Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.”

Source : Hugh Prather (1970). “Notes to myself: my struggle to become a person”
“Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.”

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