Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
Interpretation
Patience and determination can overcome any obstacle.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of having patience and strength in the face of challenges. It suggests that with these virtues, one can effectively navigate and eventually triumph over life's difficulties, implying that rather than reacting hastily, a careful and steadfast approach leads to success.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience in tough times.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.
criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.
Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect
Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.
I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
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