Asselta - Opening and Fall Quotes - Midterm

Question 1

“Seek not to understand that you may believe, but seek to believe that you may understand.”

Answer 1

St. Augustine

Question 2

“More things are wrought by prayer than this world will ever know.”

Answer 2

St. Thomas Aquinas

Question 3

“It all comes down to the big D: D for discipline.”

Answer 3

Mrs. Asselta

Question 4

“We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is a habit.”

Answer 4

Aristotle

Question 5

“Good lives are made so by discipline.”

Answer 5

Sophocles

Question 6

“Knowledge makes a bloody entry.”

Answer 6

St. Thomas Aquinas

Question 7

“I didn’t do the best possible job but I did the best that I could do and therefore I couldn’t have done any better.”

Answer 7

Ronald Reagan

Question 8

.”It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves”

Answer 8

William Shakespeare

Question 9

“Know thyself.”

Answer 9

Sophocles

Question 10

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”

Answer 10

Aristotle

Question 11

“I’ve never known a man worth his salt, who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for, needs the discipline.”

Answer 11

Vince Lombardi

Question 12

“The way of a sluggard is hemmed in as with thorns. The path of the diligent, a highway.”

Answer 12

Proverbs

Question 13

“Criticize a conceited man, and he will hate you for it. Criticize a wise man, and he will respect you for it.”

Answer 13

Proverbs

Question 14

“Gratitude is not only the parent of all virtues, it is greatest of all virtues.”

Answer 14

Cicero

Question 15

One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man’s paralyzing trauma is another man’s invitation to take control of his life; one women’s grounds for insanity is another women’s gaud to a dramatic shaping of oneself.”

Answer 15

Rosellen Brown

Question 16

“A man is three persons: the person he thinks he is, the person others think he is, and the person God knows he is.”

Answer 16

Samuel Brown - First Lexicon (Dictionary)

Question 17

“Nothing great was ever achieved without without enthusiasm.”

Answer 17

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 18

“Speak not for the fool’s hearing, he will despise the wisdom of your words.”

Answer 18

Proverbs

Question 19

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

Answer 19

Henry Ford

Question 20

“Man’s greatest weakness is self-doubt.”

Answer 20

Alexander Pope

Question 21

"”Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

Answer 21

John Keats

Question 22

“Art imitates life.”

Answer 22

John Keats

Question 23

“Men are monsters of their own fate.”

Answer 23

William Shakespeare

Question 24

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

Answer 24

Helen Keller

Question 25

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

Answer 25

Mark Twain

Question 26

"Careful of your enemies, they will point out your faults."

Answer 26

N/A

Question 27

"Only the truly disciplined person is free."

Answer 27

N/A

Question 28

"Preach the Gospel, use words if necessary."

Answer 28

St. Francis

Question 29

"If it is to be, it is up to me."

Answer 29

N/A

Question 30

"If you lack confidence, pretend, and it will come."

Answer 30

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 31

"There is no success without leadership."

Answer 31

Sophocles

Question 32

"There is no greater courage than to bear defeat without giving up."

Answer 32

N/A

Question 33

"Life is not easy, it calls for spartan endurance."

Answer 33

Tennessee Williams

Question 34

"This thing we call failure, is not falling down, but the staying down."

Answer 34

N/A

Question 35

"What's difficult, we do it once. The impossible takes a little longer."

Answer 35

Herman Wonk

Question 36

"Life ends, art is forever."

Answer 36

John Keats

Question 37

"Experience the most brutal of teachers, but you learn... do you learn."

Answer 37

C.S. Lewis

Question 38

"I must be cruel, only to be kind."

Answer 38

William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

Question 39

"A person is as big as the thing that makes them angry."

Answer 39

Winston Churchill

Question 40

"Do the best you can, and pray God will give you the strength to do what you cannot."

Answer 40

St. Augustine

Question 41

"The eyes are windows to the soul."

Answer 41

John Donne

Question 42

"Things are never so bad that there isn't a solution, or the solution is accepting the problem."

Answer 42

Winston Churchill

Question 43

"Do the thing you fear, and death of fear is certain."

Answer 43

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 44

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

Answer 44

Martin Luther King

Question 45

"If you think you can't, you won't."

Answer 45

James Allen

Question 46

"To know even one life has been made easier because you have lived, this is success."

Answer 46

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 47

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

Answer 47

Albert Einstein

Question 48

"Insanity is repeating the same behavior and expecting a different result"

Answer 48

Albert Einstein

Question 49

"Self-pity is the most unattractive quality on stage or off, it is struggle or survival."

Answer 49

The Dresser - Movie

Question 50

"Happiest people do not get the best of everything, they make the best off everything."

Answer 50

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Question 51

"The only failure is the failure to try."

Answer 51

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Question 52

"To know you don't know, is the beginning of wisdom."

Answer 52

Plato

Question 53

"Our greatest glory is not never falling, but in rising overtime you fall."

Answer 53

Confucius

Question 54

"Experience is a hard teacher: she gives the tests first, and lessons afterwards."

Answer 54

C.S. Lewis

Question 55

"Expect nothing, be ready for anything"

Answer 55

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Question 56

"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."

Answer 56

de Correntes

Question 57

"Circumstances don't make the man, they reveal him."

Answer 57

James Allen

Question 58

"If you can change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

Answer 58

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Question 59

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Answer 59

Winston Churchill

Question 60

"If you want to see the true measure of a man, see how he treats his inferiors."

Answer 60

J.K. Rowling

Question 61

"In the confrontation between the rock and the stream, the stream always wins, not through strength, but through persistence."

Answer 61

Buddha

Question 62

"We make a living by what we do, we make a life by what we give."

Answer 62

Winston Churchill

Question 63

"It's not what you get that matters, but what you give."

Answer 63

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Question 64

'Remember this hour of this day, this is the most important hour and day of this lifetime. The past cannot be altered, but this time determines eternity."

Answer 64

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 65

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets, even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of Heaven and Earth will pause and say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper, who did his job well.'"

Answer 65

MLK