A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Before Capable Consists Doing Everyone Perfect Valour Which Without Witnesses Would Would Be

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French - Writer
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A species consists of a group of populations which replace each other geographically or ecologically and of which the neighboring ones integrate or hybridise wherever they are in contact or which are potentially capable of doing so (with one or more of the populations) in those cases where contact is prevented by geographical or ecological barriers.

Ernst Mayr

Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

Meister Eckhart

I think I am capable of doing what any other elite receiver is capable of doing.

Demaryius Thomas

If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.

Scott McNealy

There's no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

Jimmy Carter

The United States isn't going to do anything that it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, we'll be capable of doing it.

Donald Rumsfeld

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do. People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted; whereas the life they really want is precisely a compound of all those thwarting circumstances.

Geoff Dyer

I'm not doing what I do to prove what a woman is capable of. I'm not doing what I do to make Formula E more diverse. I'm doing what I do to be successful. If that's inspirational, then great.

Susie Wolff

Sometimes you think that you need to be perfect, that you cannot make mistakes ... realize you are a human being - like everyone else capable of reaching great potential but not capable of being perfect.

Susan Polis Schutz

But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it.

Melina Marchetta

When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the structure of DNA molecules, something which I would never have dreamed of doing before I started.

Alfred Hershey

I don't ever want to take a part in order to prove that I'm capable of doing something. It's all based in doing stuff that's interesting or working with people who would be fun to work with.

Steve Carell

Whatever it is, we want to be able to win at any time. The great teams and the great drivers are capable of doing that, and I think we are capable doing that.