Self-trust is the first secret of success.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
~ Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
~ Samuel Johnson
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Mens natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them apart.
~ Confucius in Analects
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we can not break it.
~ Horace Mann
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Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend’s success without envy.
~ Aeschylus
Bad neighbors count a man’s income, but not his expenses.
~ Talmud, Pesikta Rabbati, Pes., 31; Tanhuma Buber, Wayyikra, 6
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We are becoming a nation of neither children nor adults. Rather we all exist in some age zone between childhood and adulthood. We’re a nation of adolescents – preoccupied with ourselves, sexualized, moody and impulsive, seeking freedom without responsibility.
~ Joshua Meyrowitz
Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and pulls for honor and recognition. It will devise subtle, religiously acceptable means to call attention to the service rendered. If we stoutly refuse to give in to this lust of the flesh, we crucify it. Every time we crucify the flesh, we crucify our pride and arrogance.
~ Richard Foster, in Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1978) page 130.
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God is for men and religion is for women.
~ Joseph Conrad, in Nostromo
The world is not composed of religious and non-religious people. It is composed rather of religious people who have different ultimate concerns, different gods, and who respond to the living God in different ways…. All humans are incurably religious; we simply manifest different religious allegiances.
~ Ronald Nash, in The Closing of the American Heart: What’s Really Wrong With America’s Schools
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To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.
~ in The Devils
If there is no God, then all things are permissible.
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We do not “make” Christ Lord; he is Lord! Those who will not receive Him as Lord are guilty of rejecting Him. “Faith” that rejects His sovereign authority is really unbelief. Conversely, acknowledging His lordship is no more a human work than repentance or faith itself. In fact, it is an important element of divinely produced saving faith, not something added to faith.
~ in The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?
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Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
~ Betty Friedan
As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, go out and do it. As soon as you feel critical, say something kind in a kindly way. As soon as you feel neglected, send a cheerful note to a friend.
~ Oliver Wilson
Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
~ Washington Irving
There’s enough French in my blood for me to agree with the European attitude that the very young can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful: and only a mature man can be strong enough to be truly tender.
~ Madeleine L’Engle, in A Circle of Quiet (NY: HarperCollins, 1972), page 113
…(chronological segregation seems to me one of the worst sins of all), …
~ Madeleine L’Engle, in A Circle of Quiet (NY: HarperCollins, 1972), pages 116-11
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
~ Douglas MacArthur
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
~ Gloria Pitzer
What a man knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 is, for the most part incommunicable. The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions—a knowledge gained not by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love—the human experiences and emotions of this earth and of oneself and other men; and perhaps, too, a little faith, a little reverence for things one cannot see.
~ Adlai Stevenson
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to man.
~ Leon Trotsky, in Diary In Exile
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Fortes fortuna adiuvat. [Fortune favours the brave.]
~ in Phormio
Nullumst iam dictum quod non sit dictum prius. [Nothing is ever said that has not been said before.]
~ in Eunuchus, 41
Novi ingenium mulierum: nolunt ubi velis, bui nolis cupiunt ultro. [I know women's ways: they won't when you will, and when you won't they're dying for it.]
~ in Eunuchus, 813
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De l’audace, encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace! [Audacity, audacity again, and audacity always.]
~ Georges Danton, to the French Legislative Assembly on September 2, 1792
Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.
~ Nicholi Machiavelli, in Discourses
In audacity and obstinacy will be found safety.
~ Napoleon I, in Maxims of War
Desperate affairs, require desperate remedies
~ Horatio Nelson
The gods favour the bold.
~ Ovid, in Metamorphoses, x
Bold decisions give the best promise of success.
~ Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, in Rules of Desert Warfare
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
~ Edmund Spenser, in The Faerie Queene
Boldness be my friend!
Arm me, audacity, from heat to foot!
~ William Shakespeare, in Cymbeline
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