The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
R.G. Ingersoll
Quotes
John Ruskin
The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
Bishop W.C. Magee
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Arnold Toynbee
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and
Friedrich Nietzsche
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Stuart Ewen
On the one hand, style speaks for the rise of a democratic society, in which who one wishes to become is often seen as
Mencius
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
Virginia Postrel
The more choices we have, the more responsibility we face – whether or not we want it – to define ourselves esthetically.
Richard Tedlow
About Carnegie: ‘He loved the hunt and he loved the money, but he did not love the men in the hunt for the money.’