50 Thought Provoking Quotes By Bryce Courtenay, The Author Of The Power One
First with the head, then with the heart.
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.
But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.
I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.
First with the head, then with the heart, you'll be ahead from the start.
When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.
Never take advice from a donkey.
You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.
Sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency
Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.
Pride is holding your head up high when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
In teaching me independence of thought, they had given me the greatest gift an adult can give to a child besides love, and they had given me that also.
You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.
Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!
It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.
It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.
I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.
How I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.
Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man.
Generosity overpowers greed.
The imagination is always the best torturer.
I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about it.
Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.
Life is all beginnings and ends. Nothing stays the same, lad.
