Fate of the Indolent

“It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.”
--John Philpot Curran

Independent of Public Opinion

“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.” --Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Power To Forget

“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”
--Sholem Asch

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Be Just

“Man’s greatness lies in his decision to be greater than his condition. And if his condition is unjust, he has only one way of overcoming it, which is to be just himself.”
--Albert Camus

Temporary Condition

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”
--Marilyn vos Savant

Brotherhood

“Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.”
--Carlos Romulo

Conditional Love

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
--Robert Heinlein

Sic Transit

“Failure is a temporary condition, quitting makes it permanent.”
--Bill Connors