Non-Gorean Quotes.....continued
The following are quotes from may inspirational individuals. I in no way lay claim to the words that I have listed below.
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power that resides in him is new in Nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "What are these tools, these techniques of suffering, these means of experiencing the pain of problems constructively that I call discipline? There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing." ~M. Scott Peck "Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same." ~Francesca Reigler "If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." ~Mary Engelbreit "To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have." ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr. "The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs." ~Joan Didion "When you blame others, you give up your power to change." ~Robert Anthony "Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow." ~Henry S. Haskins "To be completely woman you need a Master, and in him, a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him, it is no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long." ~Marlene Dietrich A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. " ~ Euripides "The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be." ~Socrates "Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway." ~ John Wayne "A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." ~ Baltasar Gracian "The price of greatness is responsibility." ~ Sir Winston Churchill "Deeds, not words shall speak me." ~ John Fletcher "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly." ~ John Fletcher "It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence." ~ Marquis de Vauvenargues "Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs." ~ Joan Didion "Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future." ~ Bourke Cochran "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts" ~ John Locke "Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."~ William James "Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within." ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." ~ Carol Burnett "People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt "The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson "The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others." ~ Hassidic Saying "Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal." ~ Hannah Arendt "There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'" ~ Andre Gide "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud, was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ~ Anais Nin "Sometimes what seems like surrender, isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it, is far, far, greater." ~ Tom Booker " Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened." ~ Billy Graham- 
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