Quotex

If you have a problem that you can't do anything about (gravity). It is not a problem, it is a circumstance.

Bias to action: when in doubt, do something.

You don't even know you have a brain, subjectively speaking

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

I do not fear the 10,000 kicks you have practiced once. I fear the one kick you have practiced 10,000 times.

My power proceeds from my reputation, and my reputation from the victories I have won. My power would fail if I were not in support of it with more glory and more victories. Conquest has made me what I am; only conquest can maintain me.

A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust into a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.

Nothing more can be considered as real merit for a person than his effort. Only in his effort is a person shown in his real light.

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows

Worry is the dividend paid to disaster before it is due.. when the odds are hopeless, when all seems lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority at least of indifference.

Take a bucket, fill it with water, put your hand in it clear up to the wrist. Now pull it out; the hole that remains is a measure of how much you'll be missed.. the moral of this quaint example: to do just the best you can, be proud of yourself, but remember, there is no indispensable man!

When great events are moving, one must play a part in them.

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

Brothers - the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.