Patrik Baboumian Quotes

I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

True strength is delicate.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

I wouldn't be honest if I told you that in some moment of my life I had a lot of rage - probably hate - I'm not sure of hate, but rage. But you know what happens is that then you realize you cannot do to others what you think nobody has to do to anybody. Life is important for me and not any kind of life, quality too of life.