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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNo physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
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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.
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From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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