John Huston Finley quotes

John Huston Finley quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.”
-- John Huston Finley

#Strength Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

Source : "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.
“I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy.”
“When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.”
“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”
“Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.”
“Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.”
“To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.”

Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz
“You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.”

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