"Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?"

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Source : Bear Grylls (2012). “A Survival Guide for Life”, p.152, Random House

Bear Grylls

#Strong Quotes #Ego Quotes #Enough Quotes

“By the English common law, her husband was her lord and master. He had the custody of her person, and of her minor children. He could 'punish her with astick no bigger than his thumb,' and she could not complain against him.”
“I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have since come to learn that it is an animal-based diet that is responsible for the overwhelming majority of cases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and all kinds of other problems.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.”
“I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.”

Source : Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee
“He took each fact as it came and let it slip painlessly into the back of his mind, thinking, Okay, okay, I'll think about that one later; and that one; and that one; so that the alert, front part of his mind could remain free enough to keep him in command of the situation.”
“To be a mother is a magical experience. The whole body is transformed by this.”
“There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.”
“But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.”

Source : Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.417, Oxford University Press

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