The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
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More Quotes from Johann Friedrich Schiller
There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.
Appearance rules the world.
Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not.
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Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.
In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
It does not take a majority of prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.