W.J. Slim
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
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Duchesse d’Alencon, refusing help during a fire at a Paris charity ball.
"Because of my title I was the first to enter here. I shall be the last to go out."
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Brooke Astor
"Power is the ability to do good things for others."
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Sir Douglas Bader
"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 was 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.
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Catherine the Second
"I praise loudly; I blame softly.
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C.A. Beard
"I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail."
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Norman Vincent Peale
"Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory."
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Joshua L. Liebman
"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values."
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Vince Lombardi
"Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence and to victory, even though we know complete victory cannot be obtained, it must be pursued with all one's might. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.
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J. P. Morgan writing about Napoleon Bonaparte
"No obstacles fell in his way that seemed to him insurmountable. He might be defeated, as he sometimes was, but he shrank from no hardship through impatience, he fled from no danger through cowardice.
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