One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.
John Shelby Spong
I've always come back from adversity, and I've always had the mentality of proving people wrong.
David Beckham
I like to challenge hitters with a 'Here it is, hit it,' mentality. It's definitely a big part of my game, especially when I get in situations where I need it. I usually save a little bit so it's there for me.
Justin Verlander
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
