Lim Siong Guan Quotes

We need to be able to hold the ground and defend ourselves long enough for the United Nations to come in and tell everybody to stop fighting and behave themselves.” That is the fundamental concept, so the question is whether Singapore can have a defence capability such that we can hold on long enough. I believe this will be possible on only one premise, and that is a massive deployment of technology.

Many supervisors will tell you what they want are people with energy, initiative, and imagination, but in reality, they feel threatened by people who have different views from theirs, and thus discourage or diminish those who carry bad news or make mistakes. Those who expect to harness the power and muscle of stallions must be self-confident, open-minded, intellectually honest, and also humble.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigour of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.