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Petrarch: Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the…

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place; and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

In today’s wordsWhere you are doesn't matter, only what you do there. It's not the place that makes you noble, but you the place, and only by doing great and noble things.

PetrarchCommonly attributed
Source
From the book Quoted in Pearls of Thought, compiled by Maturin M. Ballou, 1881

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