complete state of retreating

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.

I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

During difficult times I often turn to a gospel song called "Stand." In it, songwriter Donnie McClurkin sings, "What do you do when you've done all you can, and it seems like it's never enough? What do you give when you've given your all, and it seems like you can't make it through?" The answer lies in McClurkin's simple refrain: "You just stand.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.

A wise man is never cheated, a virtuous man is never worried and a courageous man is never afraid.

I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

Dont let go. Okay. No matter what. No matter what.

You have to carry the fire.