"It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character."

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Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.124

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#Character Quotes #Self Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Being a hero doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re invincible. It just means that youâ€™re brave enough to stand up and do whatâ€™s needed.”
“Suffering gives us no special rights.”
“For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.”
“You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; its too realistic. When I design, I dream.”
“If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.”
“Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.”

Source : "Goldman Sachs VP explains why he quit". "60 minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. October 24, 2012.
“Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.”
“Wealth is created from creating value.”

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