"The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith â€” and faith will triumph."

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Source : Speech at the unveiling of a statue of Lafayette in Brooklyn (1917), as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, 1922.

Joseph Joffre

#Discipline Quotes #Triumph Quotes

“Don't eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that you will never fall over on your cat.”

Source : Rip Esselstyn (2009). “The Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter's 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan that Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds”, p.59, Hachette UK
“Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.”
“He who is firm in will molds the world to himself”

Source : "Hermann und Dorothea". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, October 1797.
“Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.”

Source : Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers
“...there is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it are also only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond both space and time.”
“Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.”

Source : Mary Wortley Montagu (2011). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.229, Cambridge University Press
“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.”
“Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.”

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