"I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The lessons have just made me stronger."

-- Victor Ortiz

#Stronger Quotes #Underdog Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“I've been labeled all my life.”
“But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.”

Source : Robert E. Howard (2016). “A Witch Shall Be Born: American modern Literature”, p.40, VM eBooks
“Beware of flattery, 'tis a weed Which oft offends the very idol--vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.”
“Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.”

Source : Warren Moon (2009). “Never Give Up on Your Dream: My Journey”, p.108, Da Capo Press
“This is something I think that blues music, or folk music, and all those particular genres that have a perspective about life deal with - where the difficulties of life are seen as something that are very natural and nothing to be embarrassed about, and something that we all go through; something that's part of our share of humanity. And it accepts those difficulties and pain as such. I think there's a wonderful forgiveness that can come over you, if you have that perspective on it.”
“Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from duty nevertheless acts with feelings, if not with empirical inclinations.”
“Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?”

Source : "John Keegan: A History of Warfare". "Booknotes" with Brian Lamb, booknotes.org. May 8, 1994.
“It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.”

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