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Teresa of Avila, aka Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada NULL
A slight failing in one virtue is enough to pull all the others to sleep.
The President must have not only the courage of his convictions but also the courage to change his convictions.
Change | Convictions | Courage |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
People find happiness both in wisdom and folly, virtue and vice. Contentment is no index of true worth.
Contentment | Folly | People | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | Worth | Happiness |
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Punctuality | Virtue | Virtue |
D. A. Battista, fully Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano
The scars you acquire by exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.
The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage rather than resignation. In a sense, with the back to the wall and no exit but death or acceptance, the options narrow to one.
Acceptance | Courage | Death | Despair | Resignation | Sense |
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.
Ability | Better | Confidence | Courage | Defeat | Endurance | Future | Opportunity | Struggle | Success | Obstacle |
Altruists have a particular perspective in which all mankind is connected through a common humanity, in which each individual is linked to all others and to a world in which all living beings are entitled to a certain humane treatment merely by virtue of being alive.