Henrique Sauer Quotes & Sayings

When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on your side in your struggle to do what's right and ethical. In fact, sometimes even you won't be on your side. You'll wrestle with inner conflict, torn between what you should do and what you want to do. You'll also aggravate other people. Seems when you walk the straight and narrow you always step on someone's toes. Don't count on the ethics of excellence to make you popular. — Price Pritchett

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people — Niccolo Machiavelli

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. — Giacomo Casanova

Pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it. — Robert Cormier

We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them. — John Calvin

We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history — Manuel De Landa

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling. — George Eliot

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody. — Tobias Wolff

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward — Aesop

At this stage in your experience, lay hold of the truth that God loves you, and don't let anybody steal it away from you. Circumstances may assail you; Satan may accuse you; your Christian friends may even abandon you, but God loves you just as much as He did when He gave Jesus to die for you on the cross. Your circumstances have changed, and your feelings have changed, but God's love has not changed. When you experience the love of God in your heart, then your faith will grow stronger, and you will be able to give thanks. — Warren W. Wiersbe