"Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying."

-- Nannie Helen Burroughs

#Giving Quotes #Trying Quotes #Credit Quotes

“Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?”
“You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.”

Source : Song: Don't Fade On Me, Album: Wildflowers, 1994
“They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.”

Source : "In Rufinum". Book I. 22,
“As a bench coach in Anaheim I used to sit down below with Sosh (Scioscia) on that little area, and then when you'd get up on top, it was an entirely different vibe, man. Two, three steps up, it's a different vibe. You feel everything.”

Source : "Joe Maddon workout day interview". MLB.com Interview, www.mlb.com. October 27, 2016.
“What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.”

Source : Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.125, VM eBooks
“I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.”

Source : "A Wry Survivor, Elaine Stritch Returns to Film" by Leslie Bennetts, www.nytimes.com. December 21, 1987.
“New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you wonâ€™t hit Charlesâ€™s mate in front of his father.”
“It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal - has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India. It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own.”

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