Aidan Brazier > Aidan's Quotes

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”
― Plato, The Laws of Plato

“I bargained with Life for a penny,
and Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;

Life is a just employer.
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid”
― Jessie B. Rittenhouse

“He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.”
― Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“We are link ants, too busy with our jobs carrying crumbs to see the big picture”
― Ray Daleo

“success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine…”
― Rick Blaine

“Here's looking at you, kid.”
― Rick Blaine

“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. Proverbs 27: 17”
― Brigid Kemmerer, More Than We Can Tell

“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”
― confucius

“If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.”
― George Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon

“Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days.” Why should you and I?”
― Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

“If troops are punished before their loyalty is secured they will be disobedient. If not obedient, it is difficult to employ them. If troops are loyal, but punishments are not enforced, you cannot employ them. Thus, command them with civility and imbue them uniformly with martial ardor and it may be said that victory is certain. If orders which are consistently effective are used in instructing the troops, they will be obedient. If orders which are not consistently effective are used in instructing them, they will be disobedient. When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“The most expensive sex is free sex”
― Woody Allen

“TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“Powerful and mighty is the human mind! It builds or it destroys.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― Carl Jung

“A great man shows his greatness,” said Carlyle, “by the way he treats little men.”
― Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys. There are those that want to be astronomers, and those that want to be astronauts. The astronomer, or the paleontologist, gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety."
"But then you never get to go into space”
― Joe Johnston

“Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make. Dependent people cannot choose to become interdependent. They don’t have the character to do it; they don’t own enough of themselves.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”
― Leo Buscaglia

“But you can’t change the fruit without changing the root.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“You can't change the fruit without changing the root.”
― Dr. Stephen R. Covey