Mike Norton Quotes

#1. Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.

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#2. Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.

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#3. Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

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#4. For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

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#5. Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.

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#6. The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world.

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#7. The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.

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#8. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

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#9. It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

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#10. Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn.

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#11. When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow.

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#12. Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.

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#13. The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.

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#14. A man of logic is a man of sin.

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#15. So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

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