“And he says that the mountains are fairer
For once being held in your thought;”
East and West Poems, Part I, His Answer to "Her Letter.".
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American author and poet 1836–1902Related quotes
Norman Mailer book The Naked and the Dead
On Sgt. Sam Croft and Mt. Anaka, in Pt. 3, Ch. 3
The Naked and the Dead (1948)
“It is your belief that you are being held back that holds you back.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 118
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 April 1964)
Variant: Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your — your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action.
Context: Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your — your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action.
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Life of Agesilaus II
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Karl Dönitz (1891–1980) President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarine forces during World War II
To Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
statement by Muir as remembered by Samuel Hall Young in Alaska Days with John Muir (1915), chapter 7
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