In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory:
magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
- -- Sir Winston Churchill
Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or
a color TV set in every home. Man lives by
faith and hope and love, by the star on the
horizon, by the trumpet that will not call
retreat.
- -- E. Merrill Root
The meaning of life is creative love. Not love
as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental
emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving
out into the world and doing something
original.
- Tom Morris, from his book 'If Aristotle Ran
General Motors'
"Hope sees the invisible,
feels the intangible,
and achieves the impossible."
- Anonymous
Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you
can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make
up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a
stick, then have a go at everything. Go to
school, join in all the games you can. Go
anywhere you want to. But never, never let
them persuade you that things are too difficult
or impossible.
- Sir Douglas Bader, a British fighter pilot who
lost both legs in a flying accident, but still
fought in World War Two. He was knighted for
his work with the disabled, and the quote
above is from his talk to a 14-year-old boy
who had lost a leg in a car accident.
Men can be stimulated to show off their good
qualities to the leader who seems to think
they have good qualities.
- John Richelsen
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are
flawed, but win out in the end because
they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs
and commitments.
- Actor Kevin Costner
They are ill discoverers who think there is no
land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- Francis Bacon
Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow
will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a
level with yourself.
- --F. Hawes
What you can do, or think you can, begin it.
- -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly
fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of
prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in
the dark hour of adversity.
- -- Washington Irving
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not
bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that
I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand
with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes
wrong.
- -- Abraham Lincoln
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every
experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
- -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a
blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man
lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually
make a new man of himself.
- -- Wang Yang-Ming
As long as a person doesn't admit he is
defeated, he is not defeated -- he's just a little
behind and isn't through fighting.
- -- Darrell Royal, Texas football coach
Because of my title I was the first to
enter here. I shall be the last to go out.
-Duchesse d'Alencon, refusing help
during a fire
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and
take without forgetting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has
not, but rejoices in what he has.
- Epictetus
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a
good deed in a naughty world.
- William Shakespeare
There is only one happiness in life, to love and
be loved.
- George Sand
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is
also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
- Seneca
Man has no nobler function than to defend the
truth.
- Ruth McKenney
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies
important ongoing activity.
- Paul Goodman
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit
behind it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man
bears with composure one heavy mischance
after another, not because he does not feel
them, but because he is a man of high and
heroic temper.
- Aristotle
The important thing is this: to be able at any
moment to sacrifice what we are for what we
could become.
- Charles Du Bos
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without
being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class
never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge.
It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved
you can meet life.
- Ann Landers
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly,
despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with
sorrow, but through it all I still know quite
certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christie
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting
love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of
goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
- William Hazlitt
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he
should sweep streets even as Michelangelo
painted, or Beethoven composed music or
Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep
streets so well that all the hosts of heaven
and earth will pause to say, here lived a great
street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Laughter is the language of the Gods.
- Buddhist saying
It teaches the strong to know when they are
weak and the brave to
face themselves
when they are afraid. To be proud and unbowed
in
defeat yet humble and gentle in victory. And
to master ourselves
before we attempt to
master others. And to learn to laugh, yet
never
forget how to weep. And to give the
predominance of courage over
timidity.
- General Douglas MacArthur, on the virtues of competitive
athletics.
The best portion of a good man's life are the
little, nameless, unremembered acts of
kindness and love.
- William Wordsworth
Great hopes make great men.
- -- Thomas Fuller
The three great essentials to achieving anything
worthwhile are; first, hard work, second,
stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.
- -- Thomas Edison
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched
hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of
companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration
that comes to one when he discovers that
someone else believes in him and is willing to
trust him with his friendship.
- -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle
is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
- -- Helen Keller
So, then, to every man his chance -- to every
man, regardless of
his birth, his shining
golden opportunity -- to every man his right
to
live, to work, to be himself, to become
whatever his manhood
and his vision can
combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the
promise of America.
- Thomas Wolfe
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if
greatness is expected of him.
- John Steinbeck
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