The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat. It is to prevail. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In a retreat the lame are formost. [In a retreat the lame are foremost.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“The only thing that we should give up on is the idea that we should be giving up.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation... — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later. — Jane Lindskold Copy Share Image
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when… — Ed Viesturs Copy Share Image
“...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“I center down - I retreat, not inside myself, but outside myself. ... Self-forgetfulness is tremendously invigorating. I wonder if we don't… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor;… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
“Life, authentic life, is supposed to be all struggle, unflagging action and affirmation, but when I look back I see that the… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
I think most people, when they take a look at the candidates and the positions of the candidates, realize that protecting this… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.'… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
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