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- Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
- Dr. Thomas Dooley
- In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry V", Act 3 scene 1
- Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
- The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885)
- When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
- Irving Wallace
- Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
- Dr. David M. Burns
- Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
- Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), 1590
- A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944
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