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'Not in vain' may be the pride of those who survived and the epitaph of those who fell. The eight thousand paratroopers of the First British Airborne Division who landed in Arnhem, Holland, behind the German lines and held the area for nine days and nights, with a loss of six thousand. September 1944 Major General R. E. Urquhart, the division commander radioed to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery All will be ordered to break out rather than surrender.

- Winston Churchill Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods.

- Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak. ...... They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

- James Russell Lowell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

- Johan Cruijff Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Those who attempt to level never equalize. In all societies some description must be uppermost. The levellers, therefore, only change and pervert the natural order of things they load the edifice of society by setting up in the air what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground.

- Edmund Burke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The body manifests what the mind harbors.

- Jerry Augustine Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children.

- John Dewey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Aeschylus wrote 'In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.'

- Robert Francis Kennedy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Picture God as saying to you, 'My son, why is it that day by day you rise, and pray, and even strike the ground with your forehead, nay sometimes even shed tears, while you say to Me 'My Father, give me wealth' If I were to give it to you, you would think yourself of some importance, you would fancy that you had gained something very great. Because you asked for it, you have it. But take care to make good use of it. Before you had it, you were humble now that you have begun to be rich, you despise the poor. What kind of a good is that which only makes you worse For worse you are, since you were bad already. And that it would make you worse you knew not hence you asked it of Me. I gave it to you, and I proved you you have found and you have found out Ask of Me better things than these, greater things than these. Ask of Me spiritual things. Ask of Me Myself'

- Saint Augustine of Hippo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

- Isoroku Yamamoto Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My care is like my shadow in the sun Follows me flying flies when I pursue it.

- Queen Elizabeth I Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true To think without confusion clearly To love his fellowmen sincerely To act from honest motives purely To trust in God and Heavn securely.

- Henry van Dyke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. 'To the devil with those who published before us.'

- Aelius Donatus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's a fine night to have an evening.

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Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

- Publius Vergilius Maro Virgil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.

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Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.

- Aeschylus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Anarchy may not be the best form of government, but its better than no government at all.

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Be careful in casting out your devil 'lest you cast out the best thing about you.

- Friedrich Nietzsche Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

THE DOG'S COLD NOSE ...a poem When Noah, perceiving 'twas time to embark, Persuaded the creatures to enter the Ark, The dog, with a friendliness truly sublime, Assisted in herding them. Two at a time He drove in the elephants, zebras and gnus Until they were packed like a boxful of screws, The cat in the cupboard, the mouse on the shelf, The bug in the crack then he backed in himself. But such was the lack of available space He couldn't tuck all of him into the place So after the waters had flooded the plain And down from the heavens fell blankets of rain He stood with his muzzle thrust out through the door The whole forty days of that terrible pour Because of which drenching, zoologists hold, The nose of a healthy dog always is cold

- Arthur Guiterman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

- Mahatma Gandhi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The sage, who is living outside the routine of the world, contemplates his own character, not as an isolated ego manifestation, but in relation to the laws of life. He judges freedom from blame to be the highest good.

- I Ching Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise counsel.

- Benjamin Franklin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes