"The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure."

-- B. H. Liddell Hart

#Strong Quotes #Military Quotes #Successful Quotes

“No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?”
“Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.”

Source : John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.9, Shambhala Publications
“We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about our society.”
“You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.”

Source : Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond.”
“Another thing I like about German cities - and it's an advantage which they haven't sufficiently exploited yet - is that they are pioneers when it comes to environmental technologies. And green solutions are becoming more and more important.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.”
“I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.”

Source : "W.O.W. : Writers on Writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.

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