Great Throughts Treasury

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Srully Blotnick

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

Dedication | Luck | Majority | People | Study | Wisdom | Work |

Hubert Humphrey, fully Hubert Horatio Humphrey

We are the standard-bearers in the only really authentic revolution, the democratic revolution against tyrannies. Our strength is not to be measured by our military capacity alone, by our industry, or by our technology. We will be remembered, not for the power of our weapons, but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

Capacity | Compassion | Dedication | Industry | Power | Revolution | Strength | Technology | Weapons | Will | Wisdom |

Durant Drake

Religion is not mere conformity to moral law, it is an espousal of moral ideals, a dedication of the heart, a loyal devotion, the perpetual renewal of a right spirit within us.

Conformity | Dedication | Devotion | Heart | Ideals | Law | Moral law | Religion | Right | Spirit |

Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl

Success is the side-effect of your personal dedication to a course greater than yourself.

Dedication | Success |

Leon Battista Alberti

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it."

Art | Dedication |

Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Dedication | Determination | Price | Success | Work |

Irving Singer

A significant life - one that is more than just happy or meaningful - requires dedication to ends that we choose because they exceed the goal of personal well-being. We attain and feel our significance in the world when we create, and act for, ideals that may originate in self-interest, but ultimately benefit others.

Dedication | Ends | Happy | Ideals | Life | Life | Self | Self-interest | World |

Howard Zinn

Should we welcome the huge growth of the military budget at the expense of health, education, the needs of children, one fifth of whom grow up in poverty? I suggest that a patriotic American who cares for his or her country might act on behalf of a different vision. Instead of being feared for our military prowess, we should want to be respected for our dedication to human rights.

Children | Dedication | Education | Growth | Health | Poverty | Prowess | Rights | Vision |

M. Scott Peck, fully Morgan Scott Peck

Discipline is the tool required to solve life's problems. What are these tools, these techniques of suffering, these means of experiencing the pain of problems directly? Delaying gratification, accepting responsibility, dedication to truth, and balance.

Balance | Dedication | Discipline | Life | Life | Means | Pain | Problems | Responsibility | Suffering | Truth |

M. Scott Peck, fully Morgan Scott Peck

Mental health is an ongoing dedication to reality at all costs.

Dedication | Health | Reality |

William A. Ward, fully William Arthur Ward

Who gives a good book gives more than cloth, paper, and ink... more than leather, parchment and words. He reveals a foreword of his thoughts, a dedication of his friendship, a page of his presence, a chapter of himself, an index of his love.

Dedication | Good | Love | Words |

John Carmack, fully John D. Carmack II

In the information age, the barriers [to entry into programming] just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.

Dedication | Diet | Enough | Need | Self | Work |

Joseph H. Hertz, fully Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz

Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's Teaching to Israel, and the resulting dedication of an entire people to God's service.

Dedication | Dignity | People | Purpose | Purpose | Revelation |

Krishna, also Kreeshna, Krsna, Lord Krishna NULL

Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life. Give freely. Be self-controlled, sincere, truthful, loving, and full of the desire to serve...Learn to be detached and to take joy in renunciation. Do not get angry or harm any living creature, but be compassionate and gentle; show good will to all. Cultivate vigor, patience, will, purity; avoid malice and pride. Then, you will achieve your destiny.

Dedication | Desire | Determination | Good | Harm | Joy | Malice | Will |

Leo Busacaglia

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: first, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change - to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change: doing something.

Change | Decision | Dedication | Growth | Self |

Mary Anne Radmacher

Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we’d have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer discretion and discernment for our past with a broad spectrum of forgiveness. As for our present moment, delight. And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility

Dedication | Discernment | Discretion | Good | Memory | Past | Present |

Michael Murphy

Love in all its greater expressions requires dedication as well as natural attraction, and steadfastness through many kinds of difficulty. But it is always renewable, and it can take root anywhere. Indeed, it is part of the genius of love that it can be summoned in situations where its existence at first seems impossible.

Dedication | Existence | Genius | Love |

Michael Parenti

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

Business | Dedication | Business |

Paul G. Hoffman, fully Paul Gray Hoffman

With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except hate and greed and distrust.

Dedication | Greed | Hate | Humility | Intelligence | Nothing | Peace | Strength | World |