You don't know what pressure is until you play for $5 with only $2 in your pocket.
~ Lee Trevino
The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul to either conquer or perish with honor is the secret of victory.
~ General George S. Patton
In war there is no substitute for victory.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the road may be for without victory there is no survival.
~ Winston Churchill
Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
~ General William T. Sherman
If you start to take Vienna take Vienna.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
~ Jane Adams
The moment one definitely commits oneself the Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
~ Wh. Murray
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think I want to make this movie it'll never get made.
~ Sherry Lansing
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
~ Katherine Mansfield
I am a stranger to half measures.
~ Marita Golden
Perform without fail what you resolve.
~ Benjamin Franklin
To say yes you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no even if saying no means death.
~ Jean Anouilh
What one has one ought to use and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
~ Cicero
Nothing's far when one wants to get there.
~ Queen Marie Of Rumania
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might.
~ Bible
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
~ Leontyne Price
Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind with a faint heart and with a lame endeavor.
~ Isaac Barrow
Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.
~ Saint Margaret Of Cortona
Morality like physical cleanliness is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.
~ Victoria Ocampo
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
~ Lord Chesterfield
My face is set my gait is fast my goal is Heaven my road is narrow my way is rough my companions are few my guide is reliable my mission is clear. I cannot be bought compromised detoured lured away turned back diluted or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice hesitate in the presence of adversity negotiate ... at the table of the enemy ponder at the pool of popularity or meander in a maze of mediocrity. I won't give up shut up let up or slow up.
~ Robert Moorehead
To have no loyalty is to have no dignity and in the end no manhood.
~ Peter Taylor Forsyth
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors you had better seek another flag.
~ Anonymous
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
~ Washington Irving
I don't want people who want to dance I want people who have to dance.
~ George Balanchine
What a man wants to do he generally can do if he wants to badly enough.
~ Louis L'amour
Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.
~ Clementine Paddleford
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
~ L. J. Cardinal Suenens
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
One advantage of marriage it seems to me is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.
~ Judith Viorst
You can't try to do things you simply must do them.
~ Ray Bradbury
I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for he isn't fit to live.
~ Martin Luther King
Theirs is not to reason why theirs is but to do or die.
~ Alfred
If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment - and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That's where respect comes from.
~ Michelle Obama
