"We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times."

-- George Washington

#Giving Up Quotes #Effort Quotes #Despair Quotes

“People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.”

Source : "What would a second Obama term look like?" by Paul Gigot, www.foxnews.com. September 08, 2012.
“Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....”
“Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.”
“No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.”
“A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.”

Source : Henry Beston, Roger B. Swain (2001). “Herbs and the Earth”, p.6, David R. Godine Publisher
“you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.”
“Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!”
“Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it.”

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