Cardinals Quote by Steven Pressfield Download Open image “Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.” — Steven Pressfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cardinals Contempt Failure Inspirational Virtue
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. — Edward Dowden Copy Share Image
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success. — Edward Dowden Copy Share Image
We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow!… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“that of dealing death, of loosing another man’s soul and sending it down to hell. You want to savor it, to twist the blade… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected. — Bob Barker Copy Share Image
A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds! — Dave Beard Copy Share Image
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet, death appears… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award. — Aaron Neville Copy Share Image
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
You never know what's going to happen the rest of the way. You can't predict. You don't know what Montreal is going to do… — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight… — Richard Harris Barham Copy Share Image
We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act… — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.There… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
