Joseph F. Lamb quotes

“The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered.”
-- Joseph F. Lamb

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“Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.”

“I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.”

Source : Song: Surrendering, Album: Under Rug Swept, 2002

“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”

“The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.”

“Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.”

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

“The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”

“The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.”

“Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.”

“Humility is not weakness, but strength under control”

“There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.”