"In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Politician
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"In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Politician
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"If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."- David Viscott (1938 - 1996) American psychiatrist
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"There is no exercise better for theheart than reaching down and lifting people up."- John Andrew Holmes (1773 -1843) American politician
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"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 (1880 - 1964) American five-star general and field marshal
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"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English Poet
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Good advice but tough to follow!
"I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came."- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th President of the United States
"The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality."- John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848) 6th President of the United States
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"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) American Novelist
Something often lacking these days!
I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race - possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution - is that is has grown by creatively responding to failure. -- Glen Seaborg (1912-1999) American Chemist, Chairman Atomic Energy Commission
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"Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know."- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875) English Novelist and Clergyman