Your courage

Your cheerfulness

Your resolution

Will bring us victory

If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Sun Tzu

 

 Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest.

 Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: "We got through another night!"

Enid Bagnold

 - You humans are puny, weak.

- But our spirit is indomitable.

 The future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

Elizabeth Gaskell

 Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

(Horace)

 It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

(John Green)

 To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

(Pearl S. Buck)

 Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

(Coco Chanel)

 Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

(Napoleon Hill)

United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we  fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.

(Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

(Rabindranath Tagore)

 If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

(Billie Jean King)

 We don't see things as they are,

we see them as we are.

(Anais Nin)

 Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.

(Paulo Freire)

There's no such things as a horse that can't be rode or a cowboy that can't be throwed.

(American Proverb)

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

(JOHN McCAIN)

 My rule is: If you meet the weakest vessel, attack. If it is a vessel equal to yours, attack. And if it is stronger than yours, also attack.

Stepan Makarov.

 Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

(Mark Twain)

 Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

(Bernard Williams)

 The difference between success and  failure is a great team.

 We can either wring our hands in despair or use them to roll up our shirtsleeves and try to find new ways to make a difference.

 (Pat Schroeder)

 Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

(Joseph Conrad)

 In spring no one thinks of the snow that fell last year.

(Swedish proverb)

 Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

(T.S. Eliot)

Adopt the pace of Nature.

Her secret is patience.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 The beauty of life is to fight in a difficult situation.

(Shirin Ebadi)

 Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

(D. Elton Trueblood)

 There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

(Ronald Reagan)

 Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

(Robert Louis Stevenson) 

 I'm just gonna stay angry.

I find that relaxes me.

(Ron Swanson)

 What worries you, masters you.

(John Locke)

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

(Margot Asquith)

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a boogeyman around, turn on the light.

(Dorothy Thompson)

 If you make up your mind not to be happy, there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

(Edith Wharton)

Once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.

(Haruki Murakami - 村上春树)

Frowning frogs cannot stop the cows drinking from the pool.

(Kikuyu Proverb)

 

 The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

(Gloria Steinem)

 You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

(Michael Phelps)

 Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

(Buddha)

 If I cannot prevail upon heaven, I shall move hell.

(Virgil)

 

You mustn't confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

 (F.Scott Fitzgerald)

 The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

(ALAN KAY)

 

Anger is like milk, it should not be kept too long.

(Phyllis Bottome)

 

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

(Willa Cather)

 

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

(Olive Schreiner)

 

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

(John Muir)

 Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, and believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

(Louisa May Alcott)