#niten

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph. ↗

— Michael Scott

#nicholas-flamel #niten #sophie #survival #triumph

A life which has never been laid open in penitence and faith before God has little permanence in eternity. ↗

— R.K. Harrison

#faith #penitence #faith

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#burning desire #definiteness #desire #knowledge #must

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it. ↗

— Lee J. Cobb

#getting #i #out #penitentiary #way

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. ↗

— Charles Ives

#better #curious #definiteness #extravagant #hope

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#cemetery #either #i #penitentiary

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#choose #forced #four #house #i

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#achievement #definiteness #point #purpose #starting

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#fair #fair trial #had #high #high office

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#humility #penitence #righteousness #sovereignty #love