Quotes
Authors
Larry Walters

Larry Walters quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A man can't just sit around.”
-- Larry Walters

Source : "July 2, 1982: Up, Up and Away With 42 Balloons" by Tony Long, www.wired.com. July 2, 2009.

#Ambition Quotes #Men Quotes
“If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk.”
-- Larry Walters

#Brother Quotes #Able Quotes #Hawks Quotes
“A commentary on the times is that the word 'honesty' is now preceded by 'old-fashioned.'”
-- Larry Walters

#Honesty Quotes #Old Fashioned Quotes #Commentary Quotes

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”
“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.”
“Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.”
“The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation”
“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”
“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”
“We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?”
“No one man is superior to the game.”
“Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”
“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”

Larry Walters quotes

You may also like: