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The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions. – James Garfield

Other quotes by James Garfield

Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. – James Garfield

Category:
Defeat
Author
James Garfield
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Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. – James Garfield

Category:
USA Patriotic
Author
James Garfield
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Commitment
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There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others. – John Adams

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Commitment

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance. – Tom Flores

Category:
Commitment

I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, whatever it takes! – Tom Fatjo

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Commitment

We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us. – J. Dabney Day

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Commitment

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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. – Thomas Hobbes

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power

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, May 1849

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Quotations

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud. – Gerald Vann

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Prayer

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself. – Horace

Category:
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