Quotes
Quotes about Wit
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. - Theodore Roosevelt,
And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canannites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.
Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong!
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, the best of circumstances.
The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes; For more of those who shrink from shame are safe Than fall in battle, while with those who flee Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.
One man with courage makes a majority.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ; spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
One man with courage makes a majority.
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
The Impossible Dream To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe To bear the unbearable sorrow To run where the brave dare not go To write the unwritable wrong To be better far than you are To try when your arms are too weary The reach the unreachable star This is my quest, to follow that star No matter how hopeless, No matter how far To fight for the right Whithout question or pause To be willing to march into hell For a heavenly cause And I know if I'll only be true To this glorious quest That my heart will be peaceful and calm When I'm laid to my rest And the world would be better for this That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star music by Leigh.
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.
One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. -Don Quixote.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
