#ward

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool. ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#forward #going #i #instead #just

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#attempt #backward #determination #go #might

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#award #blame #criticism #discriminate #duties

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

#cowardice #dangerous #irresponsible #keeps #minds

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#alter #always #consciousness #easier #elevation

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible. ↗

— Robert Southey

#doing #first #first step #impossible #mind

My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#because #been #believe #change #committed

One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#being #brutally #constantly #down #forward

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#back #change #forward #give #political

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#begins #cause #confidence #creates #downward