"First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can."
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
John Wooden on Best"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson on Best"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt on Best"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
e. e. cummings on Best"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."
Dalai Lama on Best"Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone."
"Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better."
"Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be."
"Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be."
"My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive."