#den

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. ↗

— Alice Walker

#flawed #gift #greatest #greatest gift #hidden

Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#becomes #christianity #god #invariable #law

It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1. ↗

— Stefan Edberg

#another #became #called #changed #finals

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#always #american #be different #declaration #different

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service. ↗

— Charles Edison

#after #am #bickering #capacity #civil

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#carry #everybody #grief #their #them

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior. ↗

— Atul Gawande

#inspirational #medicine #student-accountability #attitude

If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again. ↗

— John Edwards

#christopher #christopher reeve #country #get #john

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials. ↗

— John Edwards

#ceo #company #did #dollars #facts