Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Interpretation
Perseverance can achieve more than force, and small efforts can overcome large challenges over time.
This quote by Plutarch emphasizes the power of perseverance and patience in overcoming obstacles. It suggests that when faced with challenges, a steady and persistent approach can lead to success, whereas attempts to forcefully confront these challenges may prove ineffective. By breaking down difficulties into manageable parts, one can gradually overcome them, highlighting the importance of taking consistent, small steps toward a goal.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage students to keep striving despite difficulties.
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Come back with your shield - or on it
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?
I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.
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