"The Power of One" Quotes
A young boy overcomes adversity and discrimination to pursue his dreams of becoming a champion boxer in apartheid-era South Africa.
fiction | 629 pages | Published in 2013
Quotes
First with the head, then with the heart.
A man's spirit is his most important possession. He can lose everything but still possess that.
The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself.
In each of us there is a flame that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it burns within us, we cannot be destroyed.
I learned to say the phrases 'I am sorry,' 'Thank you,' and 'Very nice' in sixty-six languages.
The feeling of righteous indignation crossed my soul for the second time in my life – the first was on the day the chicken refused to die.
The Boer was right to say the sun went around the earth. Because if it did not, things on earth would be different indeed.
The faintest ink on the parchment is much stronger than the strongest memory.
With the love that his mother had never given him.
Chick chick chick, chickisting... chick. Chick chick chick chick, chick chickistic... chick.
