"The first part of success is 'Get-to-it-iveness'; the second part of success is 'Stick-to-it-iveness'."

--

Orison Swett Marden

#Motivational Sales Quotes #Sticks Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied by the Israelis. We can then engage in a clandestine struggle to liberate the land of Palestine, to liberate Haifa and Jaffa.”

Source : Gamal Abdel Nasser's remarks at a meeting with King Hussein as quoted in Efraim Karsh "Islamic Imperialism: A History" (p. 172), 2006.
“Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.”
“We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted.”
“People have been tolerating their insane political system, in exchange for the countless privileges they are getting from their countries' plundering of the planet, and violating entire nations and continents. But in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, those "un-people" have no choice at all.”
“To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.”
“Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.”

Source : Johannes Tauler, Charles Kingsley (1858). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)”, p.384
“In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.”
“Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.42, Granta Books

You may also like: