“I learned that courage was not absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not the one who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear” – Nelson Mandela.
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner” – Mandela.
“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison” – Mandela.
“To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others” – Mandela.
“A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren’t still there, he is no longer a political leader” – Bernard Baruch.
“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time” -Franklin Adams.
“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organisation of hatreds” – Henry Adams.
“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him” – Charles De Gaulle.
“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where is no river” – Nikita Khrushchev.
“In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always” – Walter Landor
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed” – Mao Tse-Tung
“If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics” – Will Rogers
“Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, becomes important in the eyes of more trivial men”- George Jean Nathan.
“Thinkers prepare the revolution; bandits carry it out” – Mariano Azuela.
“All oppressed people are authorised, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters” – Henry Clay.
“A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government” – Goethe
“Everywhere revolutions are painful yet fruitful gestations of a people: they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas” – Manuel Gonzalez.
“The wind of revolutions is not tractable” – Victor Hugo.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure” – Thomas Jefferson.
“In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder”. -Pearl S Buck, A Bridge for Passing
“When the moon is not full, the stars shine more brightly”. – Buganda Proverb.
“Fear created gods; audacity created kings” – Prosper Jolyot Crebillon.
“Everyone must row with the oars he has” – English proverb.
“The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence” – Euripedes.
“It is skill not strength that governs a ship” – Thomas Fuller.
“There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light” – Dostoevsky.
“It is not going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage” – Henry Ward Beecher.
“To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us, when we succeed, it betrays us” – Charles Cales Colton.
“At the back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law” – Brooks Hay.
“A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much” – Homer, Iliad.
“It is not enough to aim, you must hit” – Italian proverb.
“To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die” – Vauvenargues.
“People who know how to act are never preachers” -Emerson.
“There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they seem to get nowhere” – Carl Sandburg.
“The great end of life is not knowledge but action” – Thomas Huxley
“Action is the proper fruit of knowledge” – Thomas Fuller
“Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going” – James Thurber.
“Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves” – Italian Proverb
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative” – H G Wells
“Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith” – Robert Ingersoll.
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable” – Helen Keller.
“Calamity is man’s true touchstone” – Beaumont
“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper” – Aristotle.
“He that has never suffered extreme adversity, knows not the full extent of his own depravity” – Charles Colton.
“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy and by religion” – Charles Colton.
“Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint” – Emerson.
“Public calamity is a mighty leveller” Edmund Burke.
“When an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick him” – Hindu proverb.
“That which does not kill me makes me stronger” – Nietzsche
“The drowning man is not troubled by rain” – Persian proverb
“People could survive their natural trouble all right if it weren’t for the trouble they make for themselves” – Ogden Nash
“There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice” – Joseph Addison
“We may give advice, but we cannot inspire conduct” La Rochefoucauld.
“You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves” – Stanislaw.
“Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions” – Longfellow.
“The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition” – Vauvenargues.
“We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about” – Eric Hoffer.
“It is the fate of the coconut husk to float, for the stone to sink” – Malay proverb.
“Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live” Jean Giraudoux.
“Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things underground and much more in the skies” – Cervantes
“Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions” – Emerson
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear” – Edmund Burke.
“No man can lose what he never had” – Izaak Walton.
“I don’t want people to love me. It makes for obligation” – Jean Anouilh.
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has fallible god” – Jorge Borges.
“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior” – Francis Bacon.
“Sweet is revenge – especially to women” – Byron.
“Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil – and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty” – Aristotle.
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