Lyn St. James famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

  • Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

  • The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.

  • The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

  • We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

  • The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

  • Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history.  It is the companion that dogs our every step.

  • As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

  • Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.

  • You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.