“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”
Source: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”
Source: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
This quote is widely attributed to Margaret Thatcher on various websites, and also appears in a number of books, including The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Columbia University Press (1989), ed. Robert Andrews, p. 320 : ISBN 0231069901. 9780231069908 , but without any further source information such as date, location or any other context.
One valid Thatcher quote which may be the basis for the version above appears in the Second Carlton Lecture http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105799 (‘Why Democracy Will Last’), delivered at the Carlton Club, London (November 26, 1984) : Mr. Chairman, each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can’t take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew. You know that marvellous quotation from Goethe : ‘That which thy fathers bequeathed thee / Earn it anew if thou would possess it.’
Thatcher also expressed this thought in a Speech to Atlantic Bridge (May 14, 2003) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/111266, delivered at the St. Regis Hotel, New York City : My friends, every generation has to fight anew the battle for liberty.
Disputed
“Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -”
“There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.”
Source: Stigmata: Escaping Texts
“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.”
“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.”
A Month of Sundays (1975)
Source: A Month Of Sundays
“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130 <!-- also p. 156 -->
Context: Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
“We are here and it is now: further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy
“Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.”
“More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home.”
Source: Island of the Blue Dolphins
“I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.”
Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Source: Essays of Three Decades (1942)
“She had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.”
Source: The Awakening (1899)