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T E Lawrence Inspirational Quotes (36)

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Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.
T. E. Lawrence
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Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.
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I wrote my will across the sky, in stars
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Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.
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Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.
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Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two.
Tracy Lawrence
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It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.
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Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.
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Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.
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Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.
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My biggest advice to people now is that when you go through something traumatic, you've got to go talk to somebody. You've got to be able to understand it, make peace with it inside yourself, and you've got to be able to let it go.
Tracy Lawrence
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Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
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I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
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The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
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As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.
T. E. Lawrence
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