"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve."

-- Benjamin Franklin

#Failing Quotes #Resolve Quotes

“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.”

Source : "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 2003.
“With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.”

Source : Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1844). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.252, London : W. Pickering
“I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.”

Source : "The story of Gucci" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2011.
“Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?”
“The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart?”
“Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.”
“I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism.”

Source : "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 489), 1999.
“Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.”

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