Quotation Collection

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• work
• effort
• imitation

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. William James

• virtue

When you're outnumbered and surrounded and someone yells "charge", you don't have to ask which direction. Any way you're facing, you'll find a target. Ronald Wilson Reagan

• actions

I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world. Charlie Munger

• honesty