Quotes - Peter Sutherland (Montreal, QC, Canada) Showing 1-30 of 52

#1

“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: friendship, happiness, inspirational

1106 likes

#2

“It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

tags: fight, friends, friendship, kill, loyalty, strength

3014 likes

#3

“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all
connected with you.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: altruism, love, patience

333 likes

#4

“Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing"
it waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles
and in the right way.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

tags: patience, power, timing, waiting

1294 likes

#5

“No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don’t like work – no man does – but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

46 likes

#6

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

2196 likes

#7

“You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

255 likes

#8

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war

3039 likes

#9

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: strategy

1235 likes

#10

“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: importance, safety, state, war

440 likes

#11

“Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.”
― Sun Tzu

318 likes

#12

“When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.”
― sun tzu, The Art of War

tags: business, strategy, war

564 likes

#13

“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

1001 likes

#14

“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.”
― Sun Tzu

100 likes

#15

“He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight”
― Sun Tzu

134 likes

#16

“Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm”
― Sun Tzu

tags: overcoming-obstacles

147 likes

#17

“who wishes to fight must first count the cost”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: business, strategy, war

496 likes

#18

“No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his
own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.
If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay
where you are.
Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded
by content.
But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again
into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”
― Sun Tzu

36 likes

#19

“Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

144 likes

#20

“Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: business, strategy, war

102 likes

#21

“Be where your enemy is not.”
― Sun Tzu

tags: enemy, inspirational, sun-tzu, war

91 likes

#22

“Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: business, strategy, war

56 likes

#23

“Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: business, strategy, war

50 likes

#24

“Supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.”
― Sun Tzu

27 likes

#25

“The general who does not advance to seek glory, or does not withdraw to avoid punishment, but cares for only the people's security and promotes the people's interests, is the nation's treasure.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

40 likes

#26

“We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: business, strategy, war

30 likes

#27

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul

5651 likes

#28

“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: altruism, care, caring, designer, ego, happiness, life, love, nobody, self-love, self-sacrifice, selfish, wisdom

1138 likes

#29

“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”
― Carson McCullers, The Square Root of Wonderful

tags: care, caring

240 likes

#31

“I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.”
― Tanith Lee, Wolf Star

tags: care, friends, relationships, tact

168 likes

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