In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.

Proverb

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

Denis Diderot

If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

Harold MacMillan

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

Stendhal

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy

William Shakespeare

We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable.

Jack Schwartz

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books, her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself.

Hoda Kotb

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

George Washington

And as for our future, one will hardly find us again on the paths of those Egyptian youths who endanger temples by night, embrace statues, and want by all means to unveil, uncover, and put into a bright light whatever is kept concealed for good reasons. N

Friedrich Nietzsche

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

William Penn