#act

There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. ↗

— Admiral William Bull Frederick Halsey Jr.

#men

In Chestnut Hill money didn't talk, but it drank, and played a lot of golf. ↗

— Alistair McHarg

#dark-comedy #great-dialogue #humor #quirky-characters #social-satire

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ↗

— William James

#happiness #motivational #work #motivational

A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain. ↗

— Mildred W. Struven

#hard-work #motivational #motivational

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’. ↗

— John Burroughs

#hope #motivational #motivational

If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace. ↗

— Philip Yancey

#love

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#behave #demean #easily #heroes #motives

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#destruction #flawed #human-character #human-nature #nature

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#nature

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#storm-scene #nature