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# Collected Sayings

We do not seek virtue for its reward. Virtue is its own reward and its own justification.

The obstacle you encounter is the path forward. That which resists us shapes us.

Time is not given to us; it is made. We choose what fills the hours, and so we choose who we become.

Do not ask what the world owes you. Ask what you owe the world.

Clarity of purpose is more valuable than abundance of means.

We speak of courage as if it were rare. It is merely habit directed toward the right action.

The mind that argues with necessity wastes what it could spend on acceptance.

Every action either enlarges or diminishes us. There is no standing still.