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The Times Great Quotations: Famous quotes to inform, motivate and inspire

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Never stop because you are afraid — you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat; it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian polar explorer (1861–1930)



Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

The Female Eunuch (1970)

Germaine Greer, Australian writer and intellectual (1939–)



Oft in danger, oft in woe,

Onward, Christians, onward go;

Bear the toil, maintain the strife,

Strengthened with the Bread of Life.

Oft in danger, oft in woe (1812)

H Kirke White, English poet (1785–1806)



Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Old Town Folks (1869)

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American abolitionist and writer (1811–1896)



The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence but by oft falling.

[Seventh Sermon before Edward VI, 1549]

Hugh Latimer, English Protestant martyr (1487–1555)



It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

John Steinbeck, American writer (1902–1968)



Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

Typhoon (1902)

Joseph Conrad, Polish-British writer (1857–1924)



Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

Meditations (before 850)

Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (161–180)



Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

Marian Wright Edelman, American children’s rights activist (1939–)



I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Mark Twain, American writer (1835–1910)



You may not control all the events that happen to you but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Letter to My Daughter (2008)

Maya Angelou, American writer (1928–2014)



There is no effort without error or shortcoming.

[“Citizenship in a Republic” speech, 1910]

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the US (1858–1919)



Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Moral Epistles (c. 65)
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