Blood And Sweat Quotes

• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

  Winston Churchill

  Determination, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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  A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Dream, Determination

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  BLOOD, SWEAT & RESPECT. First two you GIVE. Last one you EARN.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Sports, Blood

  Twitter post from Jul 9, 2012

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• Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Learning, Blood, Sweat

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• Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

  Ray Kroc

  Inspirational, Basketball, Business

  1988 Quoted by Penny Moser 'The McDonald's Mystique', in Fortune, 4 Jul.

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• I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Good Life, Blood, Sweat

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• A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Dream, Determination, Work

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• There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

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• A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

  George S. Patton

  Witty, Peace, Powerful

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• It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Blood, Sweat

  "2008: The year in review" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2008.

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• I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

  Winston Churchill

  Giving Up, Government, Blood

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

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• Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

  Winston Churchill

  Fear, War, Greatest Victory

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

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• I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

  Edward Abbey

  Real, Blood, Sweat

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.39, Big Earth Publishing

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• The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

  Kim Young-sam

  War, Blood, Sweat

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• We have heard enough about being practical and efficient and prudent. We heard it preached through several decades that these things would save the world. I think that, with the salty taste of blood and sweat on our lips, we are learning that we had best talk once again about doing what is right.

  Ellis Arnall

  Learning, Thinking, Blood

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• The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.

  Charles Kettering

  Peace, War, Future

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• Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'

  Orlando Bloom

  Dirty, Boys, Naughty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Responsibility, Past, Men

  Speech at Naval War College, Newport, R.I., June 1897 See Byron 28; Winston Churchill 9; Winston Churchill 12; Donne 4

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