Jose Rizal Quotes

If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.

Jose Rizal

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• Independence
• Dare
• Stubborn
• Heroic

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• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

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• We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

  

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• In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.

  

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• Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.

  

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• Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

  

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• Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

  

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• Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

  

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• But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

  

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• It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

  

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• The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

  

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• I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.

  

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• If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Conflict
  • Independence
  • Dare