Favorate Quotes

Just thought I would share some of my favorite quotes. It's always nice to find other people who think the same way you do about things.



"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960


"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle."
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt, "Man in the Arena" Speech given April 23, 1910

"How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue."
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)