Post #3218

If at first you don't succeed - get a bigger hammer.
—Alan Lewis

Post #1395

Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed;
For what I will, I will, and there's an end.
—Shakespeare

Post #1067

How little do the landsmen know
Of what we sailors feel,
When the waves do mount and the winds do blow!
But we have hearts of steel.
—The Sailor's Resolution, 18th century

Post #1065

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
—Muhammad Ali

Post #1048

You must be master and win, or serve and lose, grieve or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Post #906

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
—Thomas Paine

Post #792

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
—Jack Dempsey

Post #713

Running...all over the sea trying to get behind the weather.
—Joseph Conrad

Post #643

Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.
—Robert Grant

Post #342

Well, we knocked the bastard off!
—Sir Edmund Hillary

Post #298

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Post #177

They could not capture me except under a white flag.  They cannot hold me except with a chain.
—Osceola

Post #148

To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.
—Paul Valéry

Post #138

The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
—Henrik Ibsen

Post #107

If there is no wind, row.
—Latin Proverb

Post #20

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
—Helen Keller

Post #5

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
—Albert Einstein