Famous quotes with Asks of

• He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel
• Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset
• Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset
• Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, He asks of thee works first and words after.

  Charles Kingsley
• He who allows himself to be devoured will be devoured, and he will die before he has done his work. The man who has an ardent passion for work asks of others only what will help him. He shirks no work that ca be of use and that he ca do well, but he flies from conversations, meetings, talkfests, studios full of phrase-makers. Goethe even advises such a man to ignore daily events if he cannot do anything about them. If we spend an hour every morning informing ourselves about distant wars and another hour lamenting their possible consequences, when we are neither ministers, generals, nor journalists, nor anything, we render no service to our country and we waste the most irrecoverable of our possessions: our own short life.

  André Maurois

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