"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing."

-- George Eliot

#Inspirational Quotes #Success Quotes #Courage Quotes

“I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.”
“Just because you like me doesnâ€™t make me what you want or need.”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.176, Macmillan
“Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.”
“The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean.”
“God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.”

Source : "The Inner Life: Why Do We Suffer?" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.”

Source : "The Gospel of the Resurrection: Thoughts on Its Relation to Reason and History".
“Women tend to collaborate, in my experience, more easily than gentlemen do.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The guys that are out there now likeÂ Calvin JohnsonÂ andÂ Larry FitzgeraldÂ they're making $16 million, $15 million a year, and I'm not looking for anything like that. A lot of that money goes to the quarterback position and rightfully so.”

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