Bryce Courtenay citations

“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.”

“… besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.”

“Always listen to yourself… It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.”

“I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.”

“Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance.
-Doc”

“I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.”

“But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.”

“Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.”

“First with the head, then with the heart, you'll be ahead from the start.”

“When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.”

“Never take advice from a donkey.”

“You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.”

“Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.”

“sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency”