Bullies Below The Radar: How to Wise Up, Stand Up and Stay Up – 2nd Edition

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Ben Leichtling
 

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Page 104 - Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Page 11 - Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Page 67 - The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool ; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted and when to be obeyed.
Page 87 - So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Page 141 - Now it is a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it...
Page 140 - Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Page 68 - Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world— making the most of one's best.
Page 136 - Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Page 75 - he asked. 'A cage,' she said. To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.' 'And yet you counselled me not to adventure on the road that I had chosen, because it is perilous?' 'So may one counsel another,' she said. 'Yet I do not bid you flee from peril, but to ride to battle where your sword may win renown and victory.
Page 122 - These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

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