Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
-- Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

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I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
-- Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

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One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.
-- Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

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Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains
-- Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

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Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.
Have a determination that is strong enough to move walls.
The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to precede every other inquiry into social physics, since it is, as it were, the basis. The average man, indeed, is in a nation what the centre of gravity is in a body; it is by having that central point in view that we arrive at the apprehension of all the phenomena of equilibrium and motion.
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.
I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?
The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.
A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!
If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!
Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet famous quotes

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