"One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is no return; one is a weakling forever. Meeting a challenge, though one may be defeated, gives strength, character, and a certain assurance that regardless of outcome, one will survive or go down fighting."

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Source : "Reflections from the North Country".

Sigurd F. Olson

#Life Quotes #Running Quotes #Character Quotes

“I've been for 10 years trying to make something out of my life as an actor. I've learned a lot but I haven't done much that's worthwhile. So maybe if I make people wonder what I really do look like and make myself unrecognizable, they will be interested and intrigued, which eventually, of course, happened.”
“One of the most devastating enemies of the family is radical sex education in the public school. It is more explicit than necessary for the good of the child. Too much sex education too soon causes undue curiosity and obsession with sex.”
“Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whether the hair is six or sixty inches long, the eyes have make-up or not, the riffs are in 'E' or 'F' sharp, the amps are Marshall or not, all those things don't matter if you are doing it for the right reason, which to me means doing it for yourself!!”
“[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.”
“I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.”

Source : "Stella McCartney: 'Fashion people are pretty heartless'" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2009.
“I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.”
“Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.”
“deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.”

Source : Bernice Fitz-Gibbon (1967). “Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising”

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