If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.


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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY
We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY
When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes...
ROBERT KRAFT
Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
ROBERT KRAFT
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
ROBERT MUGABE
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
ROBERT MUGABE
In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East ...
ROBERT MUGABE
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
ROBERT MUGABE
If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth ...
ROBERT MUGABE
Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have...
ROBERT MUGABE
Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.
ROBERT MUGABE
Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, wri...
ROBERT KYNCL
The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. T...
ROBERT KENNEDY
If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financia...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the co...
ROBERT KENNEDY
French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI
Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the pro...
ROBERT MUGABE
I really don't hold grudges. I mean, I remember everything, but I move on.
ROBERT KRAFT
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.
ROBERT BYRD
And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The ...
ROBERT BYRD
This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
ROBERT BYRD
It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack....
ROBERT BYRD
The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue th...
ROBERT BYRD
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of th...
ROBERT BYRD
Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
ROBERT BYRD
Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the wo...
ROBERT BYRD
I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times o...
ROBERT BYRD
Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of havi...
ROBERT BYRD