"In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained."

-- Robert Graves

#Love Quotes #Sports Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.”

Source : "'Glee Project' Winner Samuel Larsen Talks Mentoring, Temptation and Romancing Quinn" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 12, 2012.
“I like having curves - I'm proud of them!”
“An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.”
“At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.”
“Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate.Not the compromising conciliatory politics of humaneness, not the Erasmian, but rather the politics of vested power which firmly exploits every opportunity, politics in the sense of the "Principe," has determined the development of European history ever since.”
“There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. The person of integrity knows what to do, and does it. But as we have been exploring, there are also times when certainty and single-mindedness indicate something less admirable: a deafness to voices that should be heard or a blindness to aspects of a situation that need to be considered.”

Source : Simon Blackburn (2014). “Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love”, p.173, Princeton University Press
“I got really lucky when I found somebody that I want to be friends with forever.”

Source : Source: www.billboard.com
“Hitler can't walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I've seen to that. Don't forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know! If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the matter quietly; if he isn't I must be prepared to use force - not for my sake but for the sake of our revolution.”

Source : Ernst Rohm's address to Kurt Ludecke (January 1934), as quoted in H. Paul Jeffers "History's Greatest Conspiracies: One Hundred Plots, Real and Suspected, That have Shocked, Fascinated, and Sometimes Changed the World", August 1, 2004.

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