Timothy G. Bax > Quotes

“Cast not a stranger from the warmth of your fire You too may be a stranger some day.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“Even a thirsty man will not drink at the river where a crocodile waits.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“It's not the journey down the wrong path that is tedious, it's the long journey back.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“Our vision controls our perception which becomes our perspective - and thus our reality.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“Yesterday is washed away. It no longer belongs to us. With it are washed any fears and sorrow that might have accompanied it. Today is a promise of a new beginning. Let’s use it constructively without worrying about tomorrow, for tomorrow does not belong to us either.”
― Timothy Bax

“The pain of getting to where you want to be is great, the pain of remaining where you are is greater.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“To criticize is to be despised. To counsel is to be revered.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“We each shall be remembered not by what we took from life, but by what we gave to life – and to one another.”
― Timothy Bax

“If you keep questioning your direction, you'll never complete your journey.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“Better to ponder your journey before taking it, than ponder why you took it.”
― Timothy Bax

“The sweetest water comes from the deepest pool.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“Our time is too short to waste walking down paths to nowhere.” The old man averted his gaze away from the cooking fire and covered his shoulders with a threadbare blanket the usefulness of which seemed long since to have been served. It reeked of wood smoke and stale tobacco. I knew at that moment he would give me the benefit of his wisdom. I didn’t want to lead our conversation too quickly in the direction I intended. Africa is timeless and so are her people. The minutes and the hours are unknown computations of a span irrelevant. Time is unimportant and its purpose trivial. Its allotment is measured only by the purpose of a mind composed.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“What if I don’t want to join the army?” I asked, guardedly. I certainly didn’t want to be cornered into something which sounded worse than boarding school. “Then you might have to go to jail,” responded Mother gravely.”
― Timothy G. Bax, Three Sips of Gin: Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's Elite Selous Scouts

“Don’t look back; look only towards the horizon of your dreams. They await you and you need only make the effort to arrive.”
― Timothy Bax

“Follow fervently the principles and beliefs which guide you. Without them you are as a rudderless ship on a tempestuous sea.”
― Timothy Bax

“It's not where the dogs bark that danger lurks. It's from the silence of the shadows where you hear no bark.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“Wisdom can be offered only by those from whom wisdom flows.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“He didn’t possess a single hair on his scalp and saw no reason why anybody else should either. We emerged from our encounter with our heads resembling freshly-plucked turkey breasts.”
― Timothy G. Bax, Three Sips of Gin: Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's Elite Selous Scouts

“The fears of the night shall be washed by the dawn.”
― Timothy Bax

“A man cannot progress far with a heavy burden, just as he cannot progress far with a heavy heart.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“For you to arrive at your destination you must first begin your journey.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“Success is assured through achievement. Fame through spectacular failure.”
― Timothy G. Bax, Three Sips of Gin: Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's Elite Selous Scouts

“Better to hunt for the leopard than have the leopard hunt for you.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“Nothing in life is constant, for even rivers change their course.”
― Timothy Bax

“It is the old logs which burn the longest.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“The lion is not easily distracted by the mindless chatter of monkeys.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“Do not be deviated from your journey by the chatter of monkeys”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“You cannot live in peace with others if you cannot live in peace with yourself.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“There are many warnings before the storm.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom

“When the pupil is ready the teacher will arrive.”
― Timothy Bax, Who Will Teach the Wisdom