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«Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
checked, checking, check in, Check it out, check up on, dare, defeat, glorious, good spirit, gray, grayer, grays, in check, in good spirits, mighty, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, spirits, They Live, triumphs, twilight
«I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.»
«To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
| About:
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
attainment, attainments, Begin, enter, pathway, pathways, purpose, ranked, ranking, ranks, recognize
«Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.»
«The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
be on, escape, finding, find oneself, insane, majority, object, oneself, on the side, ranked, ranking, ranks, side
«He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Ignorance,
Intelligence,
Military
| Keywords:
already, brain, contempt, cord, corded, earned, file, filed, files, file in, filing, given, has-been, him, joyfully, large, Marches, march on, mistake, music, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, rank and file, spinal, spinal cord, suffice, sufficed, suffices, sufficing
«To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
achievement, composition, compositions, condense, condensed, difficulty, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, express, flash, flashed, flashing, glittered, glittering, ideas, in a flash, luminous, ought, page, paper, paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, prize, prizing, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, rare, reduced, sentence, sentenced, sentencing, squandered, squandering, squanders, worthy
«When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
baptize, baptized, baptizing, battle, field, field of battle, fire, In My Eyes, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, soldiers, the fire
«O! my offence is rank, it smells to heaven.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
offence, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, smells
«The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Conscience
| Keywords:
Actions, calculations, conscience, Fates, guide, honor, hopes, however, imprudent, march, march on, memory, mocked, ranked, ranking, ranks, rectitude, shield, shielded, shielding, sincerity, the Fates, upsets, upsetting