Injury Quotes - Page 3

• Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Sad, Broken Heart

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.

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• Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

  Andrew Johnson

  Wise, Presidential, Welfare

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1868-April 1869”, p.471, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• I've told Billy [Bob Thornton] if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

  Angelina Jolie

  Love, Sports, Cheating

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

  Evel Knievel

  Broken, Body, Bones

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• I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Religious, Emotional, Thinking

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• Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Hustle

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• Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Men, Political

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• The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Business, Needs, Decision Making

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• I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Success, Lying

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.901, Delphi Classics

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• The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.

  Richard Neal

  Years, Numbers, Dollars

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• Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Issues, Looks, Damage

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• When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

  Alan Paton

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Done

  Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

  Ron Paul

  Men, Risk, Liberty

  "Conscription – The Terrible Price of War". www.antiwar.com. November 26, 2003.

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• I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

  Pele

  Reality, Men, Suffering

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• My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.

  Mickey Rivers

  Running, Goal, Score

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• As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Two, Numbers, Brain

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• No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

  Booker T. Washington

  Race, Diversity, Effort

  Booker T. Washington (1982). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1912-14”, p.66, University of Illinois Press

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• Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

  Frances Wright

  Liberty, Steps, Platforms

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.27

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• Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate, Crazy, Anger

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

  Preston Brooks

  Respect, Self, Should Have

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• Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hate, Anger, 4th Of July

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.95, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

  Greg Rusedski

  Sports, Athlete, Fighting

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• I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

  Sasha Alexander

  Fake People, Knee Injuries, Want

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• To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Peace, Aikido

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.96, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.

  Robbie Fowler

  Retirement, Player, Games

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