"Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing.……" — Price Pritchett
"Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action."
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49 Quotes by Price Pritchett
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In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get…
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Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd…
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The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical…
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Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.
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Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a…
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You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.
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Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past…
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Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds…
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We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs.…
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If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep…
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Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or…
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Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes . . . and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect,…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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