The wildest colts make the best horses.
Interpretation
Those who are naturally untamed or rebellious may grow to become the most strong and capable individuals.
This quote suggests that individuals who exhibit wild or unruly behavior, much like young colts, often possess great potential and strength. With the right guidance and experience, they can be transformed into remarkable leaders or achievers, just as wild horses, when tamed, can become powerful and skilled riding horses.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to highlight the importance of embracing individuality.
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Come back with your shield - or on it
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.
Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.
My experience is what I agree to attend to.
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