Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 122
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
William C. Menninger
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Sidney Hook
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Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
Oswald Mosley
Appearances are often deceiving.
Aesop
When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
Morihei Ueshiba
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
Roger Scruton
Tennis is a battle of the minds, just as much as it is a battle of playing ability. Trying to expose your opponent's weaknesses is one of the most vital and fascinating facets of tennis.
Sue Barker
Re-energize your soul... Walk with Mother nature.
Anthony D. Williams
Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.
Kenneth Branagh
To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains, in debt-- If we settle, then, our due account and walk through the forest, Will we finally be free?
Katy Lederer
The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May
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[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others.
You go through all the emotions when you're told to move on.
Mike Quade