Lord Byron Quotes
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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
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Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.
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Better to sink beneath the shockThan moulder piecemeal on the rock.
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Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!
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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.
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Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.
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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
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How my soul hates This language, Which makes life itself a lie,Flattering dust with eternity.
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Seek out - less often sought than found -A Soldier's Grave, for thee the best;Then look around and choose thy Ground,And take thy Rest.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.
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Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.
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The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.
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The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.
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When we two partedIn silence and tears,Half brokenhearted,To sever for years.
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The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way.