If people are good only because they fear punishment,
and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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If people are good only because they fear punishment,
and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand,
the shocks of adversity,
before it is entitled to the appellation.
Hope begins in the dark,
the stubborn hope that if you just show up
and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it,
no real success is possible.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes
its reward to the man who loves his work.
But...
I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward,
in the work that precedes what the world calls success.