Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

We are a resilient country. We've been through a Civil War; we've been through two World Wars. We've been through a Great Depression; we even made it through Jimmy Carter! We will make it through the Obama years!

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Man is not made for defeat.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.

After victory, tighten your helmet chord.

Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain ... For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And no by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But, westward, look, the land is bright.

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.

The costs of failure are infinitely greater than the price of victory.

Those nations who fight on and are defeated rise again. Those nations that surrender are finished.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

It seems that whenever America faced a challenge, it faced it and overcame it.

I learned that deep within myself, if I fight to the end, I can always find a way to win.

I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.

But still, like air, I'll rise

Take It From Me: Life's a Struggle but You Can Win

No matter how many mistakes you've made in the past, or what sort of difficulties you struggle with now, you are destined to live in victory.

We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories.

Simply to endure is to triumph.

Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.