Clare Booth Luce
"In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed."
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Darrell Royal
"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."
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Passage from Life of Christ
"Every man has an obscure respect for courage in others, especially if it is moral courage, the rarest and most difficult sort of bravery... It makes the very brute understand that this man is more than a man."
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Henry Fielding
"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Donald Douglas
"It is a hard rule of life, and I believe a healthy one, that no great plan is ever carried out without meeting and overcoming endless obstacles that come up to try the skill of a man's hand, the quality of his courage, and the endurance of his faith."
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Baron de Coubertin
"The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well."
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Mike Ditka
"I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done."
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David Herbert Lawrence
"For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive."
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Helen Keller
"The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them."
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