Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Stacy Schiff

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.'

Charlie Chaplin

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Thomas Campbell

Ye are brothers, ye are men, / And we conquer but to save.

Tom McMillan

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

Dave Chappelle

Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.

Charles Eastman

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

Guy Laliberte

There are three capitals of entertainment in the world: Las Vegas, New York and London. So far the only one I truly conquered is Vegas. New York and London are still on my checklist.

Edmund Burke

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Moshe Sharett

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.

Pierre Corneille

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.

Avi Arad

No one can be all things, as we all know.

Delta Goodrem

I can't be all things to everyone.

Aristotle

All things are full of gods.

Annie Dillard

Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.

Confucius

All things are already complete in oneself.

Colin Channer

All things in the fulness of time

George Harrison

All things must pass.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The beginnings of all things are small.

George Herbert

All things in their beeing are good for something.