Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
Quotes to Explore
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today.
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None wise dares hopeless venture.
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I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school. I know [people] who had the popular, good-looking path in high school; they tend not to do so well. It was a little bit too easy for them, where for those of us who struggled in every sense, perhaps our determination and self-reliance and discipline were reinforced by that.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.
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look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far
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When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.
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As Christians, we're asked to give. In my sport, if someone needs equipment or help with something, regardless of who they are as a competitor, I'm called to help them for a higher purpose. So it definitely affects everything I do. It's not easy. It's very hard to love everyone.
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I feel like I'm giving other people such an opportunity to go and reach for something.
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Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
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I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war.
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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
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The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
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I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.
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Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.
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No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
