Inspirational Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

— Thomas Carlyle

“We will never known what opportunities we may have missed in life by showing up tight-fisted. It is hard to receive anything if we…

— Bruna Martinuzzi

Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for nothing else,…

— John Wilmot

I see the wielding of a pronoun as something that can be freeing for some members of society but a shackle to others like…

— Rain Dove

“The callous palms of the labourer are conversant with finer tissues of self-respect and heroism, whose touch thrills the heart, than the languid fingers…

— Henry David Thoreau

The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.

— Thomas Aquinas

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there…

— Fulton J. Sheen

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

— Ambrose Bierce

“corporal discipline was de rigueur”

— Eric Metaxas

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and…

— John Milton

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

— Liam Gallagher