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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. Carlos Castaneda
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. Carlos Castaneda
courage warrior hands
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. Carlos Castaneda
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. Carlos Castaneda
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. Carlos Castaneda
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. Carlos Castaneda
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
military planning-ahead planning-things
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. Alan Lakein
military mean people
In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence when it’s attacked. Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to those—such as the police, the military, or even the National Guard—who formally compose the official defence forces of the nation. Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population. Alan Keyes
military war risk
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly. Charles de Gaulle
military destiny instruments
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny. Charles de Gaulle
military rain weather
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. Charles de Gaulle
military people diplomats
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro. Charles de Gaulle
military drinking and-love
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making. Charles Dickens
military opportunity land
American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Charles Stanley
military kids kentucky
His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky. David Morrell
war believe president
We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize. Carol Moseley Braun
war struggle snakes
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage. Carol Moseley Braun
war men bombers
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now. Carol Vorderman
warrior experience emptiness
There's no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal. Carlos Castaneda
warrior men average
... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change. Carlos Castaneda
warrior world way
Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever you are in the world of the nagual, you should also be impeccable; no time for rational crap. For the warrior intent is the gate in between. It closes completely behind him when he goes either way Carlos Castaneda
warrior men somewhere-else
A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him. Carlos Castaneda
warrior consistency spirit
...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations. Carlos Castaneda
warrior ghouls worst
If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly. Carlos Castaneda