A Quote by William J. H. Boetcker

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J. H. Boetcker

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Activity Backbone Individual Man Men Mere More One Man Than Thousand Will

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William J. H. Boetcker
American - Priest
1873 - 1962

We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true.

Duffy Daugherty

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

Henry Wilson Allen

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

Ronald Reagan

Get a backbone, not a wishbone.

Caroline Myss

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

Joyce Meyer

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Clementine Paddleford

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

Tommy Douglas

A man is not merely a man but a man among men, in a world of men. Being good at being a man has more to do with a man’s ability to succeed with men and within groups of men than it does with a man’s relationship to any woman or any group of women. When someone tells a man to be a man, they are telling him to be more like other men, more like the majority of men, and ideally more like the men who other men hold in high regard.

Jack Donovan

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

Reba McEntire

"Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual- and after all, wha is an individual? ". . . ." We can make a new one with the greatest of ease- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself."

Aldous Huxley

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

Vikram Seth

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

Erich Auerbach

The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.

Karl Marx

Dream big . . . don't let anybody or anything break your wishbone. Stay strong, full of faith, and courageous... keep that backbone straight. And along the way, don't forget to laugh and enjoy the journey.

Charles R. Swindoll

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