Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
XENOPHONWhatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
More Xenophon Quotes
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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Success always calls for greater generosity—though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
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Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!
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Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
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A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.
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Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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