"For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning."

-- Conrad Veidt

#Struggle Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Winning Quotes

“I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.”
“Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty soldiers are now spending one of every two years abroad, leaving little of the Army left in any appropriate condition to respond to crises that may emerge elsewhere in the world. In an era in which we confront a globally networked enemy, and at a time when nuclear weapons proliferation is an urgent threat, continuing on our present course is irresponsible at best.”

Source : "The President’s Policies Are Breaking the U.S. Army" by Russ Feingold, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2005.
“Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.”
“Asking, â€˜If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?â€™ is like asking, â€˜If there is no master, whose slave will I be?â€™ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.”
“You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.”
“Character is the salesperson's stock in trade. The product itself is secondary. Truthfulness, enthusiasm and patience are great assets to every salesperson. Without them, they couldn't go far. Courage and courtesy are essential equipment.”
“The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.76, Vanderbilt University Press
“I am always tying up and then deciding to depart.”

Source : Frank O'Hara (1967). “Meditations in an Emergency”, p.1, Grove Press

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