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Eleanor Roosevelt
"This is the law of the
Yukon
, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive."
Robert W. Service
"There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm."
Beverly Sills
"Native vigor of impulses and desires conserved by education and experience, the establishment of inner harmony and cooperation among the powers and capacities of the soul, the formation of a life purpose, and the direction of the individual life in accordance with the eternal principles of right that underlie human progress, these are the elements of both strength and righteousness in human character.'
Edward Sisson
"Above all challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish."
Cecile Springer
"Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free."
Adlai Stevenson
"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of." Jonathan Swift
"My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure."
Lord Tennyson
"None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility."
Thomas J. Watson
"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."
Oprah Winfrey
"There is a comfort in the strength of love: Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart."
William Wordsworth
"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves."
Dwight Eisenhower
"When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision."
Ronald Reagan
"Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage."
John F. Kennedy
"It is not because things are different that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
Anonymous
"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough."
Ronald Reagan
"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it."
Rabindranath Tagore
"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
Erma Bombeck
"Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche
26 Inspirational Quotes
"Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!" Woodrow T. Wilson
"The most dangerous moment comes with victory."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered."
St. Augustine
"Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference."
Nolan Buhnell
"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."
Lao-Tzu
"The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give."
Howard Cosell
"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory."
Ferdinand Foch
"One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it."
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."
General George S. Patton
"To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there."
Amy Van Dyken
"Victory is a political fiction."
Anonymous
"If you live long enough, you'll see every victory turn into a defeat."
Simone de Beauvoir
"There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory."
A.H.K. Boyd
"The victory of endurance born."
William Cullen Bryant
"The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny."
Winston Churchill
"Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed."
Winston Churchill
". . . You ask, What is our policy? I will say; It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."
Winston Churchill
“The courses of the Victory were absorbed into the main, then her topsails went, and then her top-gallants. She was now no more than a dead fly’s wing on a sheet of spider’s web; and even this fragment diminished. Anne could hardly bear to see the end, and yet she resolved not to flinch. The admiral’s flag sank behind the watery line, and in a minute the very trunk of the last main-mast stole away. The Victory was gone.”
Thomas Hardy
". . . He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life."
Roland Huntford
"What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death." William James
"Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends, those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now? Now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail. If we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come."
Abraham Lincoln
"Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."
Edwin Markham
"It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory."
General George Marshall
"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."
Blaise Pascal
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
228 Inspiring Quotes
"There is only one success - to spend your life in your own way."
Christopher Morley
"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
Martha Washington
"Don’t limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded."
Charles Schwab
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery."
Anne Frank
“
I"m
so optimistic I'd go after Moby Dick in a row boat and take the tartar sauce with me.”
Zig
Ziglar
"In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself."
Anonymous
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
Franklin Roosevelt
"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."
James M. Barrie
"Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead."
Scottish Proverb
"Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple, yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend."
Bits and Pieces
"Happiness lies in our own backyard, but It's probably well hidden by crabgrass."
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"If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come."
Chinese Proverb
"If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else."
Chinese Proverb
"True happiness consists in making happy."
Bharavi's
Kiratarjuniya
, Hindu
"This planet has or rather had a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it was not the small pieces of paper that were unhappy."
Douglas
Noel
Adams
“Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly" comes from the old English word "
seilig
" and it's literal definition is "to be blessed , happy, healthy and prosperous.”
Zig
Ziglar
"If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of
uncharitableness
and angry feeling in the world."
Joseph Addison
"The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness."
Joseph Addison
"Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man."
Muhammad Ali
"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness."
Woody Allen
"We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own joy."
Henri
Frediric
Amiel
"Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves."
F. Emerson Andrews
"All I ask for is an opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness."
Anonymous
"All the happiness you ever find lies in you."
Anonymous
"An endurance test for some people is the pursuit of happiness."