#mm

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #lecture #nonfiction #philosophy #self-reliance

I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway? ↗

— Curt Schilling

#anyway #bad #bad guy #call #did

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results. ↗

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

#inspirational #inspirational

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#committees #confronting #conscience #courage #everything

Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, “All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is". ↗

— Mitch Albom

#fear #help #immersion #truth-inspirational #inspirational

Communists should be the first to be concerned about other people and country and the last to enjoy themselves. ↗

— Zhao Ziyang

#be the first #communists #concerned #country #enjoy

Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#inspirational #russian #sacrifice #inspirational

Someone asked them a question about their poetry, and whether it was hard having to relive their words each time they performed. Their reply was that although they had moved beyond that--from the person or event that inspired their words at that point in time--it doesn't mean someone listening to them wasn't in that. So? So what if heartache you wrote last year isn't what you're feeling today. It may be exactly what the person in the front row is feeling. What you're feeling now, and the person you may reach with your words five years from now--that's why you write poetry. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#poetry #slammed #inspirational

The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with. ↗

— Rob Liano

#inspiration #maturity #responsibility #wedding-vows #inspirational

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#come #commonly #done #going #happen