"Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph."

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William Butler Yeats

#Joy Quotes #Overcoming Quotes #Triumph Quotes

“Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?”
“Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.”

Source : "Jesse Eisenberg: Privacy settings engaged". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2010.
“It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.”
“The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.”
“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”

Source : Milton Friedman (1975). “An Economist's Protest”
“The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?”
“At spare moments in the day, make it a point to contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life. It can make you realize, if only for a time, how lucky you are - how much you have to be thankful for, almost regardless of your circumstances...”

Source : "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy". Book by William Braxton Irvine, October 7, 2008.

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