"A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards."

-- Karl Kraus

#Motivational Quotes #Success Quotes #Strong Quotes

“Faith deals exclusively with believing God and His Word.”
“You cannot buy experience. You have to fight for it.”
“International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were still insular and therefore curious about each other's potential.”
“A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it.”

Source : Vaclav Smil (2012). “Energy: A Beginner's Guide”, p.80, Oneworld Publications
“My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.”

Source : Marie Dressler (1924). “The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts”, New York : R.M. McBride
“Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.”
“Pride comes before a fall- although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.”
“There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.”

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