Quotes
Quotes - Lee
Then he will talk--good gods! how he will talk!
Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace,
That 't is a kind of heaven to be deluded by him.
When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.
'T is beauty calls, and glory shows the way.
Man, false man, smiling, destructive man!
To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran.
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.
People see the world not as it is, but as they are.
Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number the same way. Then Num!, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.
A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
