"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

-- Josephus Daniels

#Perseverance Quotes #Men Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.”

Source : "Carmina". LXIV. 406,
“They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.”
“A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.”
“It's always strange to read the things you've hoped for in the past because by now those hopes may be spoken for or gone, transformed or altogether forgotten. Like time, hope can be so senseless. It can carry us up mountains or lie us in the quicksand. But like time, hope is unstoppable, inevitable, and blind. Sometimes we travel fast, hurdling towards the unknown, sometimes the unknown comes hurdling towards us while we watch time standing still.”
“No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.”
“Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.”
“If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.”
“There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way.”

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