Leuctra Quotes & Sayings

I went to the Grand Canyon with my family when I was about 8 years old, and I had a very blah experience. I think the scale of it is too huge - you don't appreciate it. — David Roberts

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. — J. Paul Getty

Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring? — Plutarch

People cannot change their tidying habits without first changing their way of thinking. — Marie Kondo

Happy Monday! Don't victimize yourself and let life pass you by as you sit around and complain about problems. Be empowered and create solutions. You can! — Tracey Edmonds

I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity. — Amy Weber

who can draw something of value from any situation have a tendency to do better and remain healthier than those who cannot. — Robert J. Wicks

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise. — Homer

My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast. — Gladys Taber

You're like someone from a fairy story written in a language I don't even know."
"The prince, I hope."
"No, you're the dragon, a beautiful wicked dragon. — Lisa Kleypas

Work is just a part of our Life, not vice versa. So Live life full time, work work, part time. — Vikrmn

One of them, the philosopher Philostratus, summed up the idea by saying that the great athletes of the past "made war training for sport, and sport training for war." Turning Spartan logic on its head, Plutarch even claimed that the Thebans at the great Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC defeated the Spartans because they had done more training at the palaestra; he also wrote that sport, wrestling specifically included, was an imitation and exercise of war. — Martin Van Creveld