#eli

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#delights #does #earlier #earned #easy

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#comfort #common #common enemy #cordial #deny

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#firmly #know #least #nothing

I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#believe #between #built #evil #follower

Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live. ↗

— Joe Montana

#believe #come #convinced #dreams #expect

I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything. ↗

— Joe Montana

#american #anything #baseball #bit #body talks

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

#affections #difficult #full #grateful #live

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act! ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

#act #believe #dream #first #great

If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

#build #building #cannot #foundation #life

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#did #distress #hour #i #known