Contests Quotes - Page 18

• In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

  William Prescott

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

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• Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.

  Mr. Wrestling

  Rain, Political, Campaigns

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• But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Glowing, Liberty

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.186

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• I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Perseverance, Successful

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.292, Wildside Press LLC

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• What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the least contest this, but he only said, 'Oh, how ugly.' As soon as an equation seemed to him to be ugly, he really rather lost interest in it and could not understand why somebody else was willing to spend much time on it. He was quite convinced that beauty was a guiding principle in the search for important results in theoretical physics.

  Hermann Bondi

  Science, Guiding Principles, Theoretical Physics

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• Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Anger, Heart, Understanding

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.242

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• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Mean, Sleep

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.404

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• Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

  Zig Ziglar

  Life, Archer, Feet

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• The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Blood, Issues, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Ambitious, Would Be

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2004). “The Federalist Papers”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.

  Patience Jonathan

  Husband, Home, Good Luck

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• We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word . . . Their powerful gospel put an end to such barbaric evils as infanticide and bloody gladiatorial contests. Finally, they captured the Roman Empire for Jesus Christ.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

  Joseph Conrad

  Imagine, Clamour

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.101, Joseph Conrad

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• If we will be true and faithful to our principles, committed to a life of honesty and integrity, then no king or contest or fiery furnace will be able to compromise us. For the success of the kingdom of God on earth, may we stand as witnesses for Him "at all times and in all things, and in all places that we may be in, even until death."

  Howard W. Hunter

  Faith, Kings, Honesty

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• Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Men, Brave

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• We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.

  Sam Houston

  Children, Father, Men

  Sam Houston, Eugene Campbell Barker (1939). “The writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863”

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• I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

  George Washington

  War, Mean, Patriotic

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1778). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”, p.286

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• When you have kids, there's no such thing as quality time. There's just time. There's no, 'Ooh, his graduation's better than going to the mall.' It's all kind of equal. Changing her diaper and her winning a contest - it's all good.

  Chris Rock

  Fathers Day, Dad, Kids

  "Sweetest Quotes from Hollywood Dads" by Luchina Fisher, abcnews.go.com. June 15, 2014.

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• At the end of the day it's not a weight contest, it's a visual contest. And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh, if you don't look that big then you don't look that big.

  Dorian Yates

  Workout, The End Of The Day, Looks

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• I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest. Then I'm proud. On television I am proud. But on a beach most people are not experts. The general public doesn't know how to look. How proud can you be when they don't even know what they're looking at?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Beach, Bodybuilding

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• If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained - we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us.

  Patrick Henry

  Military, Struggle, Mean

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.

  Don Murray

  Sports, Kids, Rocks

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• I had a clear vision of myself winning the Mr. Universe contest. It was a very spiritual thing, in a way, because I had such faith in the route, the path, that there was never a question in my mind that I would make it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational, Sports, Spiritual

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• In those days contests were extremely rough and frequently cost the participants their lives. Thus, whenever I sallied forth to take part in any of those affairs, I invariably bade farewell to my parents, since I had no assurance that I should ever return alive.

  Yokoyama Sakujiro

  Farewell, Parent, Alive

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• The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, People, Economic

  Zedong Mao, Mao Tse-Tung (1965). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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