#grit

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. ↗

— Nancy Kress

#self-reliance #success #intelligence

...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become.... ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#integrity #leadership #politics #leadership

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#nobility #religion #life

Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#life