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- One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
- He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
- Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
- In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
- David M. Ogilvy
- When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
- John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)
- Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
- Bible, Old Testament
- There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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