Confucius: By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
In today’s wordsBy nature people are nearly alike; by practice they grow far apart.
- Also quoted as
- Also quoted as “By nature people are alike; by practice they become far apart.”
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- The gifts that God has given you, that you discover and then develop as talents, have the potential to be deployed into the world as competencies. At the level that something becomes a competency (you develop your ability to solve problems), it can and should be monetized.
- Self-discipline in your spiritual life leads to self-discovery, confidence, and mastery.
- If you are not changing and growing for the better, nothing around you will ever get better.
- If you can say no to food and yes to exercise you can say no to anything.
- More are made good by exercitation than by nature.
- Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.