"Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood,"

-- Carl F. H. Henry

#Book Quotes #Initiative Quotes

“I believe ability can get you to the top,â€ says coach John Wooden, â€œbut it takes character to keep you there.â€¦ Itâ€™s so easy to â€¦ begin thinking you can just â€˜turn it onâ€™ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once youâ€™re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, â€˜More than ability, they have character.'”
“Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.”
“No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will find no other exercise more valuable in the cultivation of faculties which will help him to success in agility, strength, determination, coolness, and quick exercise of judgement.”
“The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote”
“Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again.”

Source : "Fred Durst promises 'brutal' new Limp Bizkit album" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. March 8, 2005.
“More die in flight than in battle.”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”
“If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.”
“I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.”

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