"All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life."

-- J. G. Holland

#Exercise Quotes #Power Quotes #Men Quotes

“No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.”
“The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.”
“Death's but one more to-morrow.”

Source : Silas Weir Mitchell (1914). “The Complete Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”, Library of Alexandria
“After [Adolf] Hitler took power, Hoffmann moved to a grander place on the Ebersbergerstrasse. I never saw the first house, I was never there. It was at the Schnorrstrasse that Eva [Braun] and he first really got to know each other. Some of this was before Geli Raubal's death, much of it was after that event.”
“My mum used to always dress me and my sister in matching Laura Ashley dresses. And I'd be like, 'Mum, I just wanna wear my Doc Martens!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."”
“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”
“Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Richard Bellings (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, kt. in prose and verse: In three volumes. ...”

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