Amazement Quote by Winston Churchill

He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must…

— David Hume

He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not, and never…

— Frederic Tudor

There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of high hopes,…

— Louisa May Alcott

Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit…

— Loudon Wainwright III

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

— William Hazlitt

“He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been…

— Virginia Woolf

He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers…

— Samuel Johnson

“...-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take…

— Roald Amundsen

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds…

— Theodore Roosevelt