Quotation Collection

Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled. Stephen Covey

• discipline
• laziness
• leisure
• rest

This is the source.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. James Michener

• character
• persistence

This combination of active and contemplative virtues is one of the most enduring themes in three thousand years of experience of what it means to be a man. Waller Newell

• action
• thought

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. Thomas B. Reed

• law