Injured Quotes

• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.

  Randy Pausch

  Lions, Want, Stills

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

  Gustave de Molinari

  Government, Guarantees That, People

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• There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Painful, Human Condition

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.6

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• Being injured is quite an awkward situation to be in mentally. Physically, it's quite good to have a bit of a rest, but mentally it's hell.

  Magnus Backstedt

  Awkward, Hell, Situation

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• If you're injured, it changes the way you move. If you're injured, it changes the way you talk.

  Darrell Hammond

  Moving, Way, Ifs

  "'SNL's' Darrell Hammond Reveals Cutting, Abuse". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November, 2011.

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• Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around himself and then throws himself into a crowd of Israelis. I've never condoned or agreed with it, but at least it is understandable as the desperate wish of a human being who feels himself being crowded out of life and all of his surroundings, who sees his fellow citizens, other Palestinians, his parents, sisters, and brothers, suffering, being injured, or being killed. He wants to do something, to strike back.

  Edward Said

  Brother, Men, Israel

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some validation from him that her pain is real, that he's sorry and will make amends. The child will wait forever, unable to move forward, unable to forgive, without someone to acknowledge the past. In that powerlessness comes a terrible rage.

  Lisa Unger

  Children, Sorry, Pain

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.747, Crown

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• We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Violent

  Patrick O'Brian (2004). “Master and commander ; Post captain ; H.M.S. Surprise ; The Mauritius command”

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• Whom they have injured they also hate.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate

  "On Anger". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 45 AD.

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• For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

  Richard Hammond

  Thinking, Brain, Questioning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was especially impressed with Pauley Pavilion [at UCLA campus ]. The floors hadn't been laid down yet, when they gave me the tour, each new room got my heart thumping. They even had a surgical operating room in case an athlete was severely injured.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Heart, Athlete, Ucla

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• The thing that would probably surprise most people was that Dr. Martin Luther King was a very reluctant leader. He felt very shocked at times that he had been chosen for this path, but he also understood that he was chosen for this path. He had several moments of acute doubt as to if he was up for the task - when people were injured in the protests he took it very personally, let alone when they were killed.

  David Oyelowo

  Kings, People, Leader

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.

  Andriy Shevchenko

  Hard Times, Injury, Back Again

  "Andriy Shevchenko backs Chelsea's Fernando Torres to start scoring" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2011.

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• You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

  Allen Johnson

  Shapes, Getting In Shape, Take Time

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• I have witnessed first-hand how the power of sport can positively impact the lives of wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women in their journey of recovery. The Invictus Games will focus on what they can achieve post-injury and celebrate their fighting spirit, through an inclusive sporting competition that recognises the sacrifice they have made. I am extremely proud that we are bringing an event like this to the UK for the first time and believe it can have a long-lasting impact on the well-being of those who have served their nations so bravely.

  Prince Harry

  Sports, Believe, Recovery

  "Prince Harry launches new Paralympic-style sporting championship for injured servicemen and women" by Nigel Atkins, www.mirror.co.uk. March 06, 2014.

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• The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.

  Nikola Tesla

  Attitude, Sunshine, Ideas

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• I respect animals. I have more sympathy for an injured or dead animal than I do for an injured or dead human being, because human beings participate and cooperate in their own undoing. Animals are completely innocent. There are no innocent human beings.

  George Carlin

  Animal, Innocent, Undoing

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Should, Endeavor, Nations

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.

  David Nalbandian

  Player, Pay, Pressure

  "David Nalbandian attacks ATP after kick gifts title to Marin Cilic" by Simon Cambers, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2012.

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• The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much.

  Wade Eastwood

  Use, Actors, Want

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I swim when I am injured. What the best guys do is so hard. Michael Phelps is the best.

  Usain Bolt

  Guy, Swim, Hard

  "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

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• There is no reason to not trust your process, no reason to get frustrated, no reason to criticize, or judge others, nothing wrong with getting old, or not being able to get pregnant, or being handicapped, or being short or tall or gay, or injured, or divorced or married to an idiot, or with Christianity or Judaism or Islam, or indigenous beliefs, or pollution, crime, war, Bush, etc. When this understanding grows, we realize where we're at now is just as perfect as wherever we could possibly get to.

  Bryan Kest

  War, Gay, Perfect

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• Cycling is not impactful. Its just like when you are injured, have a knee surgery or something, there are so many things that you can still do, you just have to find that other passion that's out there.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Passion, Cycling, Knees

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