G. Michael Hopf Quotes

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.

Decisions determine destiny. —Frederick Speakman

...We don't defeat our enemy by giving him a platform to spread the very propaganda they hope will defeat you... You can only have freedom and liberty when others want that for you. When the other side only uses freedom with the hopes of destroying it later once their in charge, it's time to shut them down... They will use our Constitution as long as they need to until they get the power, then watch them trash it.

you couldn’t get a politician to even read the legislation they were voting on. So much of politics had become gamesmanship. Leadership and statesmanship had died many years before.

family is a bigger word than, say, your biological parents or siblings. It’s those people who will do anything for you, who are there for you and you for them. They are the ones who choose to be in your life and aren’t obligated by blood.

His political career was not unlike others, all politicians had an unspoken rule: “The truth, while preferable, always takes second place to getting what you want.” San

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t. —Richard Bach

He admired those who could be open and honest without a second thought. Deep down it was something he knew was right, but it wasn’t something he could do with her.

Faraday boxes.

›Dies ist nicht das Ende. Es ist nicht einmal der Anfang vom Ende, aber es ist – vielleicht – das Ende des Anfangs.‹ Winston Churchill

can’t just think your way to something, you have to act, do, and that takes a man of action and patience because great things don’t come instantly, they come from time and effort spent.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.” —Plato

Friedrich Nietzsche, “Ultimately it is the desire, not the desirer, that we love.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” – T.S. Eliot

Yes, just like that. How a man can harbor such feelings for so long only to let them go is powerful.

The respect you have for people comes not from who they say they are but from what they do.

Hard Times Create Strong Men. Strong Men Create Good Times. Good Times Create Weak Men. Weak Men Create Hard Times.

In the novel Those Who Remain: A Postapocalyptic Novel, author G. Michael Hopf wrote: Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times” was the bit of wisdom he shared with me (from the novel Those Who Remain, by G. Michael Hopf).