When there is no peril in the ...

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
 Pierre Corneille

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
 Pierre Corneille
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
 Pierre Corneille
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
 Pierre Corneille
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.
 Pierre Corneille
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
 Pierre Corneille