Douglas MacArthur Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Conquer The World, Giving, Soldier

• Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. Whatever your years, there is in every being's heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Giving Up, Heart, Numbers

• However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Memorial Day, War

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

• I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Life, Retirement

• Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away

  Douglas MacArthur

  Confidence, Cheer, Giving Up

• Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in victory; to master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Sports, Strong, Humble

• Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Leadership, Order, Giving

• Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Giving Up, Wrinkles, Years

• Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Please Me, Giving

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