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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.
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.
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
navy becoming aircraft-carriers
Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on. Alan Shepard
navy next spent
When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy. Seymour Cassel
navy use village
The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site. James Young
navy mind sailor
Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds. Eleanor Roosevelt
navy grew grew-up
I grew up in a Navy family. Elizabeth Edwards
navy use failing
Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates. Arleigh Burke
navy trying
I was in the Navy a long time, and what we're trying to do here is something we didn't do in Vietnam. Rex King
navy offers support synergy training
Our synergy offers the Navy more comprehensive support and training capabilities. Susan Davis
navy helping capacity
Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy David Nicholls
virtue
Patience is not a virtue! Alan Chadwick
virtue thrifty ifs
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not. William Shakespeare
virtue scapes calumny
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
virtue cardinals temperance
That cardinal virtue, temperance. Edmund Burke
virtue
All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
virtue reason revelations
Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation. Archibald Alexander
virtue nobility
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.] Juvenal
virtue glory thirst
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
virtue
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. Bertolt Brecht