#less

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#carry #considering #contract #earth #every

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#boxing #eat #four #hours #less

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#embarrassed #long #long road #may #needlessly

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#anybody #because #business #confidence #dame

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). ↗

— Dawn Powell

#basis #comedy #death #disease #greed

Groping blindly in the darkness, he sank between the white mounds of cool feathers and slept as he fell, across the bed or with his head downward, pushing deep into the softness of the pillows, as if in sleep he wanted to drill through, to explore completely, that powerful massif of feather bedding rising out of the night. ↗

— Bruno Schulz

#dreams #rest #restless-sleepers #sleep #sleeping

If I were white, I'd get less criticism. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#get #i #less #were #white

Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness. ↗

— Dan Millman

#darkness #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #life-lessons #light

Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#motherhood #selflessness #life

Sometimes life brings you the most unexpected experiences, where you learn more than you ever wanted to. ↗

— Emily Gabriela Vira

#life-lessons #experience