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Showing posts with label determination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label determination. Show all posts

Sunday, February 25, 2024

Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Post #1395

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

Monday, September 24, 2012

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

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Friday, September 21, 2012

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

Friday, August 31, 2012

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

Friday, March 30, 2012

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

Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Post #792

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

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Post #713

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

Friday, July 08, 2011

Post #643

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

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Post #342

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

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Post #298

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

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Post #177

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

Friday, February 26, 2010

Post #148

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

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Post #20

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

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Post #5

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

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The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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