“Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org
“Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”— John Milton, amazon.com
“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of th…”— Stephen Colbert, departments.knox.edu
“The most trying thing in all this war is that people are too sanguine; they expect too much at once.”— Abraham Lincoln, amazon.com
“Even if a man fails in his efforts, it will be a satisfaction to him to enjoy the consciousness of having done his best. In humble life, nothing can be more cheery and beautiful than to see a man combatting suffering by patience, triumphing in his integrity and who, when his feet are bleeding and hi…”— Samuel Smiles, amazon.com
“It is will–force of purpose–that enables a man to do or be whatever he sets his mind on being or doing.”— Samuel Smiles, amazon.com
“Whether the fates will draw us on or draw us back, let's follow why they lead. Whether fortune sends, we master it all by bearing it all, we must!”— Virgil, amazon.com
“When one takes retrospective view of the events which occurred twenty four years ago, he cannot help but admit that this a progressive age and when he sees a building burn down he may console himself with the idea that he will live to see a finer one springing up from its ashes particularly if the o…”— Adm David Porter, amazon.com
“In many respects, he was doomed to a certain loneliness of excellence. Few men that ever lived have had his stern and tyrannous sense of duty, his womanly tenderness of heart, his wakeful and inflexible conscience, which was so easy towards others and so merciless towards himself. Therefore when the…”— John Hay, amazon.com
“Shame to us if we blink the evils. They are there. Shame to us if we fear to face the problem. It is there and to say that it is not there will not prove its absence. Face the problem, realize its gravity, and then approach it in a spirit not merely of determination to solve it, but of hearty desire…”— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com
“Abraham Lincoln, the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War, was the true representative of this people not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men; a man who embodied the qualities of his fellow men, but who embodied them to the highest and…”— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com
“The stare of unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.com
“Can they focus on the moment, not the monstrous obstacles ahead?”— Eric Greitens Navy SEAL, amazon.com
“They've done all the physical tasks before, endured worse–but can they put it together.”— Eric Greitens Navy SEAL, amazon.com
“Show together: resignation and defiance, pathos and humor, depressant and hope.”— Abraham Lincoln, amazon.com