"More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively"

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Source : Ray Dalio (2017). “Principles: Life and Work”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

Ray Dalio

#People Quotes #Looks Quotes #Willingness Quotes

“Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is.”
“But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works.”
“A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.”
“Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.”
“The guys that make game winners are the guys that are not afraid to miss them.”
“Have faith that when bad things happen to you, I belief in an after life, it is better to suffer here on Earth than what awaits you. That is why I pray for pain, and I get it. I do.”
“Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.136, Transaction Publishers
“We were enlightened people and we fell for this; why wouldn't Muslims fall for this?”

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