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courage regret mistake
When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that. Carlos Castaneda
courage warrior perfect
If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile...To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
courage struggle warrior
To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.
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Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.
courage warrior years
There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.
courage warrior decision
A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.
courage humble eye
The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
courage editors finally friend novelist reply talking
When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.' Stacy Schiff
courage failure humility
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Charlie Chaplin
indulge-in government vengeance
Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in. Janet Reno
indulge-in excess financial
Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess. Bill Watterson
indulge-in clothes gentleman
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
indulge-in gentleman vices
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
indulge-in actors great-things
One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life. Cameron Diaz
indulge-in trying unions
The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union. C. S. Lewis
indulge-in paradise path
He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him. Abu Bakr
indulge-in unusual homosexuality
There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances. Desmond Morris
indulge-in criticism may
If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified. Dale Carnegie
wickedness folly
Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. Jane Austen
wickedness criminals weak
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness. Edgar Rice Burroughs
wickedness uniting goodness
As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him. Alphonsus Liguori
wickedness shapes blunders
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. A. J. P. Taylor
wickedness way surprise
To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly. Orson Scott Card
wickedness world forget
All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting. Mark Buchanan
wickedness calamity
The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many. Publilius Syrus
wickedness intention
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. Marcus Tullius Cicero
wickedness kind distraction
Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction. John Tillotson