#rift

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#character #create #industry #self-control #sought

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#afloat #beyond #himself #his #horizon

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#before #claim #coming #constantly #every

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#almost #became #drama #drifted #film

Thrift is of great revenue. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#revenue #thrift

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace. ↗

— Paul Virilio

#civic #decline #drifting #effectiveness #fall

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#bordering #commonly #drift #graze #meet

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#down #drift #i #loose #sea

I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week. ↗

— Macklemore

#i #probably #shop #shops #thrift

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground. ↗

— Ralph Marston

#also #away #day #drifting #every