Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tone the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Henri B. Stendhal
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.
Ingemar Stenmark
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
Leslie Stephen
The map is not the territory.
Alfred Korzybski
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
William F. Buckley
Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
Brigham Young
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Edward Young
Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
By night an atheist half believes in God.
Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.
To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
Henny Youngman
I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.
If your going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for in the morning, sleep late.
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
Marguerite Yourcenar
The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.
It takes two men to make a brother.
Israel Zangwill
Everything changes but change.
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan -- spoiled.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Action conquers fear.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.
First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
No authority is higher than reality.
What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.
I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.
Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.
We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. We can become a dynamic equilibrium, a harmony of many different elements, in which the whole will be greater than all its parts and greater than any society the world has seen before. It can still happen.
Shirley Chisholm
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
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