“Live not for Battles Won.
Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
Live in the along.”
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer
Source: Report from Part One
"Beautiful" (08 June 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-F2ZYGty8
“Live not for Battles Won.
Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
Live in the along.”
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer
Source: Report from Part One
Jennifer Beals (1963) American actress and a former teen model
Interview with Canadian Press (17 February 2011) http://ca.news.yahoo.com/flashdance-force-beals-top-cop-chicago-code-20110217-102915-894.html.
David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist
"The Problems of Parenthood"
The Life of Birds (1998)
“Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.”
Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven
Source: The Fires of Heaven
“Pessimism never won any battle.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
“This battle to save life will eventually be won.”
Ba Jin (1904–2005) Chinese novelist
A Battle For Life (July 1958)
Context: The battle to save life is still going on. Up till now Lao Chiu has already lived for forty-four days. He lives on stubbornly and endures all suffering. Already he has become a banner, a fresh red banner. Many people regard him as a source of encouragement and as a model for them. Many consider him as a personification of the noble qualities of the working class and as a shining example of the great spirit of communism.
This battle to save life will eventually be won. The fact that Lao Chiu has lived until now is already a medical marvel. He has passed through one crisis after another and later he may face still more. But he will certainly live. Blind faith in established experience has been shattered, outmoded regulations have been smashed.
Jesse Owens (1913–1980) American track and field athlete
As quoted in Blackthink: My Life as Black Man and White Man https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0688011632 (1970) <br class="br">1970s
Stanley Knowles (1908–1997) Canadian politician
Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 7, Program, p. 80