Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you—religion, pride, anything—it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
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Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.
No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.
Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
While there's life, there's hope.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
