Rollo May Quotes
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
Quotes to Explore
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In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
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There's so much to be afraid of.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.
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The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
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People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.
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I feel for food more than I could crave a woman. And that's the truth!
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Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.
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Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.
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When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.
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Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.
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Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.
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If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.
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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
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Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
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Everyone in this room knows that Venus is probably one of the greatest people on the tour. She's really great. She's super professional. Complete opposite of me.
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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
