#elves

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#blessing #descend #earned #enjoyed #liberty

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#born #both #common #fact #fortunate

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Max Lerner

#civilization #consumers #get #our #ourselves

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. ↗

— Robert Burton

#develop #efficient #few #men #power

I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#always #asked #back #because #been

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. ↗

— John Locke

#fewer #great #ideas #only #our

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#best #dedication #determination #hand #hard

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. ↗

— Lord Byron

#always #believed #depended #fortune #i

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me. ↗

— Bryan Magee

#being #belief #beliefs #cases #content

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#business #days #down #dumb #getting