Bryce Courtenay
Bryce Courtenay
Bryce Courtenay, AMwas a South African/Australian advertising director and novelist. He is one of Australia's best-selling authors, notable for his book The Power of One...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 August 1933
art winning men
When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.
powerful men thinking
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the truth and not be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power, whatever the cost.
power-of-one conventions self-determination
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.
love law-of-attraction giving
Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.
dream heart ambition
If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the desination. Imagine your arrival. Dream in perfect detail. See yourself the way you want to be when you arrive. See yourself arriving. Make yourself a road map and study it every day until you know the way and the destination by heart.
heart fighting games
It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.
determination disappointment tasks
Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.
change earth-life chance
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.
running believe athlete
The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better.
advice power-of-one donkey
Never take advice from a donkey.
talking debate conversation
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
beats bigs plans
Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.
kings people world
If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.
mind way exciting
I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.