#def

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#add #deformities #deformity #enough #never

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#deficits #discovered #forget #future #i

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#better #checkered #dare #defeat #enjoy

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#defeats #going #great #great man #his

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#deferred #i #into #just #law

If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it's probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#affect #angry #away #bad #because

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work. ↗

— Cynthia Rowley

#body #both #definitely #design #how

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#defiance #kind #meet #often #people

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. ↗

— Wilma Rudolph

#again #champion #crushing #defeat #go

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. ↗

— Sallust

#bravery #cowards #defense #most #rampart