“Don't turn back when you are just at the goal.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 580
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.”
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
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James Legge (1815–1897) missionary in China
Bk. 4, Ch. 17 (p. 45)
Translations, The Confucian Analects
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
James Legge, translation (1893)
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
Dim Cheuk Lau translation (1979)
When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
As quoted in Liberating Faith : Religious Voices for Justice, Peace, and Ecological Wisdom (2003) by Roger S. Gottlieb, p. 24
The Analects, Chapter I, Chapter IV
Phil Brown (footballer) (1959) English association football player and manager
02-Mar-2009, Hull City OWS
No kidding!
“To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.”
H. Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) British physician, writer, and social reformer
Introduction to Huysman's A Rebours (Against the Grain) (1884)
“Dying should come easy:
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
John Dewey book Democracy and Education
Source: Democracy and Education
“I do not see why I should e'er turn back”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
"Into My Own", st. 4 (1913)
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Context: p>I do not see why I should e'er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.They would not find me changed from him they knew —
Only more sure of all I thought was true.</p
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Epilogue, “On the Beach” (p. 301)
The Laundry Files, The Fuller Memorandum (2010)