"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."

-- Robert Hughes

#Motivational Quotes #Perseverance Quotes #Determination Quotes

“I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.”
“We've been told by the people on the other side who don't like the campus sexual assault movement that these are all "he-said, she-said" cases. Quite rightly, they say campus procedures are often very flawed, the investigation methods are not that good, and we aren't sure what we can trust. [Opponents say that] it seems like a lot to call somebody a rapist if they haven't gone to a criminal trial.”
“A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.”
“Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.”
“A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.”
“Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.”
“Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.”

Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.237, Broadview Press
“Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.”

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