I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.
Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!_x000D_ _x000D_ O grave! where is thy victory?_x000D_ _x000D_ O death! where is thy sting?
How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best hope of man on Earth? After all our struggles to restore America, to revive confidence in our country, hope for our future - after all our hard-won victories earned through the patience and courage of every citizen - we cannot, must not, and will not turn. We will finish our job. How could we do less? We're Americans.
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.
Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.
The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.
As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.
Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory.
I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
For me, the best time to pray is the very moment a tense situation or an unspiritual attitude overtakes me. God the Holy Spirit is always there, ready to help me gain victory in the spiritual battles I face-big or small.
...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.
To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.
Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.
According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
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