NAYSAYERS, SIT DOWN & BE QUIET - FIGHTERS- PERSEVERANCE QUOTES FOR YOU!

[debbierlus]

Babe Ruth: It is hard to beat a person who never gives up.

B. C. Forbes: History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.

Herodotus:
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Unknown author:
Quitting is only a short cut to losing.

Josephus Daniels:
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

QUOTES FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. - WHO WOULD EXPECT US TO FIGHT UNTIL THE BITTER END

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

[John Q. Citizen]

1. Check your inbox please

[rodeodance]

2. I cringe when i see them and RW talk saying the same thing-shutter.

[debbierlus]

4. This is the LAST STAND time

I am furious, but I am using my anger to fuel action. I will not go down in silence.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. I don't have any problem with fighting at all.

My only problem is with the doom and gloom, "I'm going to disaffiliate from the party if we don't do this" people who don't obviously understand the first thing about politics or they wouldn't be saying that in the first place. While we should absolutely fight, people do have to understand the odds of this are long, and as such, do-or-die statements are flat out idiotic.

[Pab Sungenis]

23. We don't demand success....

...we demand they at least TRY.

[wisteria]

5. These are very inspiring. Thank you! n/t

[debbierlus]

8. I love a good quote...

A little dose of inspiration, a reminder of things that matter

[WilliamPitt]

6. OK

Sitting down.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. Hah! Good Post! I had just started one on Buffalo's comeback win

in 93 and then I saw this. :yourock:

[EVDebs]

9. Add this gem by Calvin Coolidge on Persistence

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." Calvin Coolidge

[proReality]

10. One more quote...

Author Unknown: Those most committed win.

So if our leading Democrats aren't committed, we stand no chance of winning anything.

[Coexist]

11. The opposite of winning is not losing...

The opposite of winning is not losing, the opposite of winning is quitting.

[sundancekid]

12. and then there is the eloquence of Ghandi ... about winning

First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.

Mohandas Gandhi

[spunky]

13. Are naysayers providing aide and comfort to the enemy by disagreeing?

*thinks* where have I heard this kind of language before? *scratches head*

[DanCa]

14. No retreat no surrender

"Like soldiers on a winter's night with a vow to deffend no retreat no surrender," Bruce Springsteen No Surrender 1984

[debbierlus]

15. Please ADD to the quotes....We can never have too much inspiration...

You all rock.

:yourock:

[Coexist]

16. Here is one that is just fun to say:

"By grapthar's hammer, by the sons of worvan, you shall be avenged"

[yellowdogmi]

17. Thank you for the inspiraton

Here is my all time favorite DU post. I think it will help us over the next few days.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=190599


Thanks to Debbierlus and to the watcher
YD

[Joe Chi Minh]

18. It's pretty moving by the time you've finished it, isn't it.

[Charlie Brown]

19. It's nice to see intimidation on DU

Some of you sound like Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis after Appomatox.

None of the people you quote were in politics, btw.

[Coexist]

24. Here is for you:

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

[mom cat]

20. THANKS ... DON'T LET THE PSYOPS OR THE PESSIMISTIC

PUNDITS WEAR YOU DOWN.

[mom cat]

21. Right On! Keep fighting.

[stepnw1f]

22. Than You... FIGHT!!!!! (nt)

[NastyRiffraff]

25. The shame is not in losing....

The shame is in not trying.

[debbierlus]

26. We accomplished A LOT today - post more quotes to keep up the inspiration

Here's a couple more:
Because that is what this nomination is about.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. Anthony D'Angelo

Got to throw a funny one in:

The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5' 7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone. Woody Allen

[doublethink]

27. ..........

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
- James R. Cook

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
- Oscar Wilde

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
- H. Jackson Brown

"The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do." :)
- Harold Coffin

Keep fighting people! :patriot: Peace.