#peril

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#glory #peril #triumph

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#peril #triumph #vanquish #without

Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#before #committee #divided #government #having

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#itself #lies #lose #military #peril

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ↗

— Voltaire

#make #natural #natural right #our #pens

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#agreed #certain #death #did #god

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril. ↗

— Xenophon

#arduous #being #cause #enduring #followers

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. ↗

— Lucretius

#encounters #great #over #part #peril

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#dead #fruit #get #greatest #likely

How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself! ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#found #foundation #high #how #numerous