"Speak out tirelessly with conviction."

-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Speak Quotes #Conviction Quotes

“The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against our bellies. The sailors heaved up the anchor, square and chalky with barnacles, and loosened the sails. Then they took their seats at the oars that fringed the boat like eyelashes, waiting for the count. The drums began to beat, and the oars lifted and fell, taking us to Troy.”
“Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.”
“Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them ... They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.”
“I don't think I really knew how fit I was when I was a kid. I rode with my dad quite long distances and I've been racing since the age of nine, so we did a lot of sport growing up. My earliest memories of my dad are watching him race, so it was inevitable when we were old enough that my brother and I would get on bikes.”

Source : Hertfordshire Life Interview, www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk. January 2015.
“Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.”
“I'm really obsessed with the past.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Men put all kinds of expectations on you. They want you to scream 'You're the best' while swearing you've never done this with anyone before.”
“Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and outdoor work.”

You may also like:

Arnold J. Toynbee
Historian
Hazel Henderson
Author
Josei Toda
Konosuke Matsushita
Business person
Mikhail Gorbachev
Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nichiren
Ryuho Okawa
Business person
Sun Myung Moon
Religious Leader
Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
Educator