To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
- Topic: Aspiration, Quality
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What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution; it represents the wide choice of many alternatives.
The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
