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“I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.”

Source: A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have attributed to that character and how I would fit into the story.”

May Play Character Stories Chance Quality Roles Fit

Author:Vincent Piazza

“I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.”

Believe Happens Chance Quality Chains Links Incidents

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper.”

“My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.”

Knows Humans Whole Universe Individual Chance Quality Mankind Higher Structure Contact Nervous Observation Convince Cerebral

Author:Aleister Crowley

“Germany has a very able and productive workforce. It has high-quality products that are valued all over the world. It has every opportunity to be a productive, growing state. It just has to give its entrepreneurs a chance. It has to let them make money, hire and fire, and act like entrepreneurs.”

World Giving States Able Opportunity Chance Quality Fire Growing Products Entrepreneur Making Money Germany Productive High Quality Workforce

Author:Milton Friedman

“I toured for about 2 1/2 years on twentythree and then I took about a year off. I really just spent some good quality time by myself at my house, cooking, watching movies, hanging with my friends, and family. I just really needed a chance to get away from the music for a minute and decompress.”

Years House Chance Quality Minutes Needed My Friends Cooking Get Away Family And Friends Good Quality Quality Time

Author:Tristan Prettyman

“Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.”

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.”

People World Should Young Chance Quality This World Exercise

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.”

Men Chance Quality Plant

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld