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Follow your passion; Do not get married to it, though.

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.

He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.

No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it.

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was great in his vocation, buried like a king who had done well by his subjects.

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

Don't sweat the small stuff" doesn't work with parenting small children. They only work in small stuff. They aren't making company decisions. They are deciding whether to use a crayon on the wall. _ Bill Klein

A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole spirit of his life him impels him to do even that which he needs not do, but which is profitable and necessary for his neighbor.

Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

it is the general rule of the moral universe that those men prosper who do their work with all their hearts, while those are almost certain to fail who go to their labour leaving half their hearts behind them.