“Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has a market, a history, and a hall of fame.” KnowsSaidRightsBattleFameEssenceBiggerCollectionsHallsSmarterQuotationsBraggingHall Of FameBragging Rights Author:Willis Regier
“Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.” MenHumansFearHuman BeingsDutyBattleEssenceOvercomingCompetitionCivil WarRemoveCowardMagnificentManhoodIndulgeIndulge In Author:George S. Patton
“The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.” WayBelieveRomanceLife IsDangerousMoralityBattleEssenceTragedyGreekPreparednessHowards End Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth” MenMindPersonsEarthJoyValuesFightingKnowingVirtuePrideMoralityBattleGoodnessAchievementEssenceAbsolutesRationalCertaintySovereignGrandeurRadiantRectitude Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged