#nation

If you think training is hard...try losing. ↗

— Davee Jones

#determination #inspirational #life #success #attitude

Really, Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy... Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that dis-empowers them or one that can literally save their lives.... gone through many different phases of Destines and that's what made me to pen down... hope it won't screw-up me again.... Something beyond love... ↗

— Atul Purohit

#destiny #determination #fiction #inspirational #life

Hero is he alone who vies with powers supreme! ↗

— Wu Cheng'en

#inspirational-attitude #attitude

We have seen segments of our Government, in their attitudes and action, adopt tactics unworthy of a democracy, and occasionally reminiscent of totalitarian regimes. We have seen a consistent pattern in which programs initiated with limited goals, such as preventing criminal violence or identifying foreign spies, were expanded to what witnesses characterized as "vacuum cleaners", sweeping in information about lawful activities of American citizens. The tendency of intelligence activities to expand beyond their initial scope is a theme which runs through every aspect of our investigative findings. Intelligence collection programs naturally generate ever-increasing demands for new data. And once intelligence has been collected, there are strong pressures to use it against the target. ↗

— Church Committee

#data #national-security #predictions #prescience #secrecy

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#american #assistance #certainly #course #foreign

To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#enough #feeling #four #fulfilment #games

I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS. Every penny, 100% of the public donations that come into this are given back out in the form of grants to colleges and researchers around the world. ↗

— Montel Williams

#back #colleges #come #cure #diagnosed

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#administration #agreed #analogous #attention #due

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#human-nature #improvement #procrastinating #procrastination #waiting

It's the journey, not the destination, that changes us!" HS/el ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#destination #journey #change