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-- Sir Edmund Hillary

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To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning.


You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives


Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.


If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.


It is not difficult to get away into retirement; and there live upon your own convictions; nor is it difficult to mix with men and follow their convictions; but to enter into the world; and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience; that is Christian greatness.


If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.


The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.


We are not put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.


The majority of people have not the courage to correct others because they don't have the courage to bear correction themselves.


A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.


A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.


Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.


Courage is knowing what not to fear.


Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.


Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.