"Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame."

-- P. C. Cast

#Strength Quotes #Eye Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.”
“When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.”
“I honestly didn't even know who the coach was when I was coming to New York. I just wanted to win a championship; I didn't even know who was coaching. I didn't care. It could have been Aunt Jemima. They could have had the syrup coaching. I was coming here regardless. I just wanted to win a championship here.”
“If I'm not prepared, I don't feel confident. It's something that you can have control of. You deserve what it is you're going after as long as you've done the work that needs to be done to prepare for it. You can't just have your hand out!”

Source : Source: www.usmagazine.com
“I think the economy in the US has surprised. The old adage is that if America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. If the US economy does well, the global economy will do well.”
“I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.”
“The more successful enterprises are the more they try to replicate, duplicate, codify what makes us great. And suddenly they're inward thinking. They're thinking how can we continue to do what we've done in the past without understanding that what made them successful is to take risks, to change and to adapt and to be responsive. And so in a sense success breeds its own failure. And I think it's true of a lot of successful businesses.”
“Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?”

Source : David Baldacci (2011). “The Whole Truth”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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