“It was among the knowledgeable others that one hoped to be talked about and admired...The years would bow to you; you would be remembered, your name like a thoroughbred's, a horse that ran and won.”— James Salter, newyorker.com
“The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, forbes.com
“Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com
“Is not ill-humour in fact our own inner displeasure at our own unworthiness, a feeling of discontent with ourselves, which is always related to envy, which in turn is stirred up by foolish vanity? We see people who are happy and whose happiness is not of our making, and we cannot stand it.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com
“Misunderstandings and lethargy perhaps lead to more complications in the affairs of the world than trickery and wickedness. At least, the two latter are surely more common.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com
“Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.”— Kabir, amazon.com
“Not all of us can always be Jackie Robinson–not even Jackie Robinson was always Jackie Robinson.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, amazon.com
“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.”— Chuck Close, cbsnews.com
“A man must swallow a toad every morning if he wishes to be sure of finding nothing still more disgusting before the day is over.”— Nicholas Chamfort, amazon.com
“Moderate your desire of victory over your adversaries and be pleased with the one over yourself.”— Benjamin Franklin, amazon.com
“Be courteous with all but intimate with a few... True friendship is a plant of slow growth.”— George Washington, amazon.com
“When one remembers that there were about 200 serving British generals and about 2,000 living British generals and at least 20,000 generals in the world, the position does not appear to have much eminence.”— B.H. Liddell Hart, amazon.com