“When we long for life without difficulty,
remind us that oaks grow strong under contrary winds
and diamonds are made under pressure.”
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American preacher 1902–1949Related quotes

Source: 1961, Speech to Special Joint Session of Congress

Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)

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1961, Speech to Special Joint Session of Congress
Context: Military and economic assistance has been a heavy burden on our citizens for a long time, and I recognize the strong pressures against it; but this battle is far from over, it is reaching a crucial stage, and I believe we should participate in it. We cannot merely state our opposition to totalitarian advance without paying the price of helping those now under the greatest pressure. We cannot merely state our opposition to totalitarian advance without paying the price of helping those now under the greatest pressure.

“Courage is grace under pressure.”
Hemingway's famous phrase in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (20 April 1926), published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker. In the letter, he wrote that he was "not referring to guts but to something else." The phrase was later used by Dorothy Parker in a profile of Hemingway, "The Artist's Reward," in the New Yorker (30 November 1929)
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