Bryce Courtenay
Bryce Courtenay
Bryce Courtenay, AMwas a South African/Australian advertising director and novelist. He is one of Australia's best-selling authors, notable for his book The Power of One...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 August 1933
memories people tag
I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
heart firsts power-of-one
First with the head, then with the heart.
men humanity mind
In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The searcher after truth must search with humanity. Ruthless logic is the sign of a limited mind. The truth can only add to the sum of what you know, while a harmless mystery left unexplored often adds to the meaning of life. When a truth is not so important, it is better left as a mystery.
men thinking good-man
what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what he is inside. what he is on the outside, how can this matter?
games play feet
You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.
wisdom way genius
Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.
art winning men
When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.
flames long independence
I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.
powerful men thinking
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the truth and not be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power, whatever the cost.
power-of-one conventions self-determination
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.
love law-of-attraction giving
Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.
dream heart ambition
If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the desination. Imagine your arrival. Dream in perfect detail. See yourself the way you want to be when you arrive. See yourself arriving. Make yourself a road map and study it every day until you know the way and the destination by heart.
heart fighting games
It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.
determination disappointment tasks
Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.