Quotes

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot have both.

Everything in life is just for a while.

Sometimes it’s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

Practice is more important than theory, for what we must learn to do, we learn by doing.

Smooth seas never made a skilled sailor.

Fortune favours the bold.