Over all this lay Hoppie's dictum: First with the head and then with the heart. Winning was something you worked at intellectually, emotion clouds the mind and is its natural enemy. This made for a loneliness which often let me aching to share an emotion but equally afraid that if I did so I would reveal a weakness which could later be used against me. Bryce Courtenay
Some Similar Quotes
  1. You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday. - Jason Mraz

  2. Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something... - C. Joybell C.

  3. A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits. - Napoleon Hill

  4. Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.. - Dr. Seuss

  5. This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning. - Winston S. Churchill

More Quotes By Bryce Courtenay
  1. It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.

  2. Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

  3. Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

  4. The imagination is always the best torturer.

  5. Never take advice from a donkey.

Related Topics