Born Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

— Henry David Thoreau

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

— Henry David Thoreau

Despair gives courage to a coward.

— Thomas Fuller

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

— Adrienne Rich

Despair swallows up cowardice.

— William Hazlitt

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely…

— Donald Barthelme

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general…

— Chinua Achebe

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

— Anonymous

Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.

— Walter F. Mondale

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

— Alain de Botton