"When ordinary human beings perform extraordinary acts of……" — Greg Mortenson
"When ordinary human beings perform extraordinary acts of generosity, endurance or compassion, we are all made richer by their example. Like the rivers that flow out of the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush, the inspiration they generate washes down to the rest of us. It waters everyone's fields."
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44 Quotes by Greg Mortenson
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It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all…
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Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.
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The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing…
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The solution to terrorism is education, not bombs.
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Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as…
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My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started…
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If you really want to change a culture... empower women.
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Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji…
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Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.
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But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.
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I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and…
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I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
— Joseph Addison
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
— Alfred Adler
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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