It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.
—Hosea Ballou
Showing posts with label sacrifice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sacrifice. Show all posts
Friday, December 05, 2014
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Post #1524
Do not expect the ship to return loaded with precious treasures, without being exposed to the stormy deep.
—Pietro Metastasio
—Pietro Metastasio
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Post #1468
Teach self-denial, and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.
—Sir Walter Scott
—Sir Walter Scott
Thursday, June 06, 2013
Post #1270
The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest...The American beauty rose can be produced in the splendour and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it.
—John D. Rockefeller
—John D. Rockefeller
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
- Native Texan · Navy Veteran · Various Scars and Tattoos · No Talent, but yet a Character