Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.
Charles Mingus
Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
Natalie du Toit
Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
Deepak Chopra
These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
Schuyler Colfax
Discretion is the better part of valour.origin: Falstaff: 'The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.'
William Shakespeare, Henry IV, P
Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.
Pema Chodron, The Places That Sc
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
There is an old-fashioned distinction between the novel of character and the novel of incident, which must have cost many a smile to the intending romancer who was keen about his work. It appears to me as little to the point as the equally celebrated distinction between the novel and the romance- to answer as little to any reality. There are bad novels and good novels, as there are bad pictures and good pictures; but that is the only distinction in which I see any meaning, and I can as little imagine speaking of a novel of character as I can imagine speaking of a picture of character. When one says picture, one says of character, when one says novel, one says of incident, and the terms may be transposed. What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? What is a picture or a novel that is not of character? What else do we seek in it and find in it?
Henry James, essay The Art of Fi
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am. The rats are always there in the cellar, but if you go in shouting and noisily they will have taken cover before you switch on the light.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Lao Tzu
The circumstances amid which you life determine your reputation; the truth you believe determines your character. Reputation is what you are supposed to be; character is what you are. Reputation is the photograph; character is the face. Reputation comes over one from without; character grows up from within.Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away. Your reputation is learned in an hour; your character does not come to light for a year. Reputation is made in a moment; character is built in a lifetime. Reputation grows like a mushroom; character grows like the oak. A single newspaper report gives you your reputation; a life of toil gives you your character. Reputation makes you rich or makes you poor; character makes you happy or makes you miserable. Reputation is what men say about you on your tombstone; character is what angels say about you before the throne of God.
William Hersey Davis, (source un
...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing -- emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.
Tom Landry
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Winning doesn't satisfy us -- we need to do it again, and again. The taste of success seems merely to whet the appetite for more. When we lose, the compulsion to seek future success is overpowering; the need to get out on the course the following weekend is irresistible. We cannot quit when we are ahead, after we've won, and we certainly cannot quit when we're behind, after we've lost. We are addicted.
Stuart Walker
Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.
Terry Goodkind
You can't change the music of your soul.
Katharine Hepburn
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. Feynman
Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man
Bertrand Russell, , Religion and
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite
There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.
Bob Feller
As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
Maurice Sendak
Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.Sir?It seems you've managed to retain this even though you are Authority.
Terry Pratchett
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke
Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
George Bernard Shaw
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
Lynn Abbey
You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.
Andrew Weil
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
Robert Anton Wilson
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
Jonathan Edwards
I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.
Miley Cyrus
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
Dick Gregory
The secret of my success is my hairspray.
Richard Gere
In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
Gael Garcia Bernal
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
Harry S. Truman
My old man, I told him I'm tired of running around in circles, So he nailed my other foot to the floor.
Rodney Dangerfield
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt
Those who seek power are not worthy of that power.
Plato
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
William Robertson Smith
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
Adrienne Rich
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