"We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important."

-- Martin Fry

#Important Quotes #Magnificence Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.”
“If you wish to control others you must first control yourself”
“Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he's wrong.”
“Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it”
“A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.”
“Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.”
“I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art.”

Source : "Letters of Friendship and Acquaintance" [Briefe der Freundschaft und Begegnungen] edited by Hans Kollwitz, p. 95; cited in "Käthe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist" by Martha Kearns, (p. 172), 1976.
“Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.”

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