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We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons (4 June 1940)
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, 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 Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons on becoming Prime Minister (13 May 1940)
There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.
Carl von Clausewitz1780–1831On War (1832), Book 2
- Courage
- Wisdom
With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
Carl von Clausewitz1780–1831On War (1832), Book 1, Ch. 1
- Courage
- Risk
If you have an opportunity to accomplish something that will make things better for someone coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.
Roberto Clemente1934–1972Tris Speaker Award acceptance speech, Houston (29 January 1971), as quoted in The Sporting News (20 February 1971)
- Motivation & Goals
- Responsibility
I use bits and pieces of others [sic] personalities to form my own.
KCKurt Cobain1967–1994Journals (2002)
- Character
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
Jean Cocteau1889–1963Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)
- Character
In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
- Love
- Responsibility
This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve.
Wilkie Collins1824–1889The Woman in White (1860), First Epoch, The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, IIn context
- Character
- Courage
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; XXVI
To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter VI, § 6.20
- Motivation & Goals
The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.
Confucius551–479 BCOther chapters
- Money
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration: this may be called perfect virtue.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter VI
- Success
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter VII, § 36
- Character
- Happiness
In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.
Confucius551–479 BCThe Doctrine of the Mean
- Failure
- Responsibility