"The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character."

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Source : Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.260, Paulist Press

John Climacus

#Perseverance Quotes #Children Quotes #Character Quotes

“I dream about 'Cheers.' Like when you go on a diet and you dream of pizza. I always think of those wonderful years. I loved working on it.”
“The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.”
“Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.”

Source : 'Changing Places' (1975) ch. 5
“Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabbyâ€”a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.”
“Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.”
“Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.”
“If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.”
“Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.”

Source : "Scotty McCreery Talks Fans, Faith & Post-'Idol' Fame". Interview with Beville Dunkerley, theboot.com. June 15, 2011.

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