“We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 149 of 1106
“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.”
“Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.”
“Failure honestly can be like the best lesson and it's like the one that like God wants you to really pay attention to. That's why it hurts. The pain will help you remember how not to walk, what directions not to go.”
“[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.”
“I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.”
“Giving is the highest expression of potency.”
“...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.”
“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.”
“Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.”
“The people that are making this world worse don't take a day off, how can I?”
“The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.”
“A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.”
“I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.”
“We are what we frequently do.”
“Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.”
“If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more.”
“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”
“Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust.”
“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.”