It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.
Joyce MeyerIn the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
Maya AngelouLook at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.
Douglas AdamsAdversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel JohnsonIt is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert EinsteinSoldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.
Alexander the GreatWhen I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.
Alice MunroWe will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
Joyce MeyerFailure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie ChaplinWin as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHeroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhat would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van GoghIf atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
J. Robert OppenheimerEven when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.
Barack ObamaCourageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Nelson MandelaActors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.
Charlie ChaplinIn spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van GoghI don’t fear anybody… at all.
Frank OceanExperience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
Harry S. TrumanI do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. RockefellerThe myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Albert CamusHow can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
Henry David ThoreauYou pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.
Denzel WashingtonSometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.
Nipsey HussleIf you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
Theodore RooseveltIn war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.
Douglas MacArthurFor every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
John F. KennedyAmerica means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.
Herbert HooverPeople need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily DickinsonA coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma GandhiIf patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Mahatma GandhiWhen sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William ShakespeareIf I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
Henry KissingerCourage is knowing what not to fear.
PlatoWar had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.
Jane GoodallYou have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Eleanor RooseveltWar against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George OrwellViolent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma GandhiWhen the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas CarlyleI’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya AngelouHow long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
Alice WalkerTo secure peace is to prepare for war.
Carl von ClausewitzI refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Friedrich NietzscheSolitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston ChurchillIsrael was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. KennedyThe best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Will RogersThe path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. KennedyI have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.
Cristiano RonaldoWar will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. MenckenFreedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Jean-Paul SartreIt take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.
Bob MarleyThe difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.
Michelle ObamaPut your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.
Jocko WillinkVitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott FitzgeraldLeadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin PowellYou may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya AngelouI can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
Richard M. NixonNever succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.