"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."

-- Gail Sheehy

#Inspirational Quotes #Leadership Quotes #Lying Quotes

“Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.”

Source : "In Landmark Decision, Supreme Court Strikes Down Main Reason Country Was Started". Satire from The Borowitz Report, www.newyorker.com. May 05, 2014.
“A good Traceur trains until he/she gets it right. An excellent Traceur trains until he/she cannot get it wrong.”
“I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.”
“When you've been through that, a fight just doesn't seem that cataclysmic.”
“There is a push and a pull almost like an isometric stretch. Our literal flexibility and our physical, psychological and spiritual practices are more important now than ever to balance the boat.”
“To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.”

Source : Athol Fugard (2009). “Tsotsi”, p.38, Canongate Books
“I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.”

Source : Interview with Luis Gomez, www.chicagotribune.com. January 11, 2013.
“Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.”

Source : Baldassare Castiglione (2003). “The Book of the Courtier”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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