„Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.“
— Richard Bach American spiritual writer 1936
„Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.“
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„I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.“
— Max Brooks, book World War Z
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
— Booker T. Washington, book Up from Slavery
Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them
Source: Up from Slavery
„All men are stupid. They are full of fear and insecurity—it makes them weak.“
— David Gemmell, book The King Beyond the Gate
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 13
Context: And now I am going to tell you a great truth, and if you are wise, you will take it to your heart. All men are stupid. They are full of fear and insecurity— it makes them weak. Always the other man seems stronger, more confident, more capable. It is a lie of the worst kind, for we lie to ourselves... How do you know? You do not! You listened to the voice of your inadequacy, and because you believed, you are in my power. If I draw my sword, you are dead!
— Melanie Phillips British journalist 1951
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„Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.“
— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues French writer, a moralist 1715 - 1747
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 179.
„I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.“
— Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987
— Huey Long American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United States Senator 1893 - 1935
Huey Long on his Negro policy as President (Williams p. 704)
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 68
— Rick Santorum American politician 1958
Santorum targets blacks in entitlement reform
2012-01-02
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„Turning, for them who pass, the common dust
Of servile opportunity to gold.“
— William Wordsworth English Romantic poet 1770 - 1850
Desultory Stanza.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
— Jean Monnet French political economist regarded by many as a chief architect of European unity 1888 - 1979
Jean Monnet 1888-1979
„Prosperity proves men to be fortunate, while it is adversity which makes them great.“
Secunda felices, adversa magnos probent.
— Pliny the Younger Roman writer 61 - 113
XXXI.
Panegyricus
„Every opportunity seized launches at least two new opportunities.“
— Kevin Kelly American author and editor 1952
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
— James A. Garfield American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881) 1831 - 1881
1880s, Garfield's Words (1882)
„Opportunities multiply as they are seized.“
— Sun Tzu ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty -543 - -495 BC
Sun Tzu among many other military thinkers and leaders believed in fate and determination from the correct application of theory, the state of the opponent's and one's own power, and a code for the general and a code for the soldier to follow, rather than the Machiavellian type of intuition that evokes an evolution of opportunism that brought great historical consequences as it dominated over the classical and medieval ethical doctrines. Thus this statement is contrary to Sun Tzu principles. Nevertheless, there is a possible relation to the quote: Quickness is the essence of the war.
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