"Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley."

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Source : Mike Matheny, Jerry B. Jenkins (2015). “The Matheny Manifesto: A Young Manager's Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life”, p.155, Three Rivers Press

Mike Matheny

#Character Quotes #Valleys Quotes #Forged Quotes

“A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.”
“I want to be someone that kids in my community look up to and want to strive to give back when they grow up.”
“Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible? Earth! Invisible! What, if not change, is your desperate mission?”
“The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.”
“I knew something was wrong that day, he made the mistakes [Pablo Escobar] had never committed throughout the last 10 years as the most wanted man in the world in one day. He never used the phone, he only did the day he was killed.”

Source : Source: harvardpolitics.com
“When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.”
“Hitchcock had a very strange mind.”

Source : "When Sienna Miller met Tippi Hedren". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.
“In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose of life, we would feel compelled to commit suicide. If, however, we accept that life has no purpose we would be inclined to soldier on in a cussed, stoical manner like Sisyphus, endlessly pushing his rock up a hill only to see it roll down again.”

Source : "Feathered frenzy" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2005.

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