A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

Compassion

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

Optimism

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity