"Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day."

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Source : 1902 Speech at the Vereeniging peace talks, 31 May.

Jan Smuts

#People Quotes #Defeat Quotes #Brighter Days Quotes

“If the selection process is right and its members GOOD, then there could be no reason why the collection of the teammates be not BETTER and bright who would work in the BEST interest of the organization, either individually or jointly, to bring sustainability in achieving newer growth height.”
“Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.”
“You figure out how to create opportunities to make music, and then, if you take care of the music, audiences will come around. They also might leave. What matters is the moment: the moment of making music, with and for and among others, and what that offers to those people in that moment. They might never see me again; they might never learn my name. But it might still be something they carry with them.”
“We become what we repeatedly do.”

Source : Sean Covey (1999). “Daily Reflections For Highly Effective Teens”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.”
“My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it. Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking.”
“Going out across the desert I remember the feelings that you have, wondering if you're going to make it out alive. Right now I wonder what that was all about. What was the point of all of that? I don't think there's any appetite from the American people to go back and do our work twice.”
“The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.”

Source : Attributed to Locker's Greenwich Gallery article "Torrington" in Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan "The Life of Nelson, Volume 2: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain" (p. 52), 1897.

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