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If you're explaining, you're losing. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#inspirational #truth #humor

See now, for a good blade, one that will not betray the man in battle, rods of hard and soft iron must be heated and braided together. Then is the blade folded over and hammered flat again, and maybe yet again, many times for the finest blades... So the hard and soft iron are mingled without blending, before the blade is hammered up to its finished form and tempered, and ground to an edge that shall draw blood from the wind. So comes the pattern, like oil and water that mingle but do not mix. Yet it is the strength of the blade, for without the hard iron the blade would bend in battle, and without the soft iron it would break. ↗

— Rosemary Sutcliff

#inspirational #sword #friendship

I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore. ↗

— Steve Nash

#sports #inspirational

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #god #hearts #heaven

‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#history #inspirational #inspirational

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#history #inaugural-address #inspirational #politics #inspirational

Run and become. Become and run. Run to succeed in the outer world. Become to proceed in the inner world. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#sports #inspirational

Apologizing to me again, thought Miles miserably. For me. He keeps telling me I'm all right—and then apologizing. Inconsistent, Father.He shuffled back and forth across the room again, and his pain burst into speech. He flung his words against the deaf door, "I'll make you take back that apology! I am all right, damn it! I'll make you see it. I'll stuff you so full of pride in me there'll be no room left for your precious guilt! I swear by my word as Vorkosigan. I swear it, Father," his voice fell to a whisper, "Grandfather. Somehow, I don't know how . . . ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#inspirational #miles #the-warrior-s-apperentice #vorkosigan #inspirational

If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do. ↗

— Steve Pavlina

#inspirational #working #inspirational

There’s so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love. ↗

— Miley Cyrus

#love #miley-cyrus #negativity #world #inspirational