#esp

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#desperation #hope #inspiration #misattributed #tenacity

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#discipline #inspirational #self-respect #inspirational

you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#inspirational #ownership #resourcefulness #responsibility #self-help

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#inspirational #respect #working-together #inspirational

While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing to Think Little, and, accepting the discipline of that, to go ahead on his own, is already solving the problem. A man who is trying to live as a neighbor to his neighbors will have a lively and practical understanding of the work of peace and brotherhood, and let there be no mistake about it - he is doing that work... A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways. (pg.87, "Think Little") ↗

— Wendell Berry

#discipline #government #nature #policy #art

But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be? ↗

— Gayle Forman

#shakespeare #inspirational

You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#detect #only #prevent #respond #the only thing

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation ↗

— Dan Millman

#living #responsibility #inspirational

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have. ↗