A Quote by Douglas Southall Freeman

The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

Douglas Southall Freeman

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Douglas Southall Freeman
American - Historian
May 16, 1886 - June 13, 1953

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You remember the Duke of Wellington was talking of the Battle of Waterloo when he said that it was not that the British soldiers were braver than the French soldiers. It was just that they were brave five minutes longer. And in our struggles sometimes that's all it takes-to be brave five minutes longer, to try just a little harder, to not give up on ourselves when everything seems to beg for our defeat.

Paul H. Dunn

Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.

Cherry Adair

For young players, their minds are not overloaded. I am 54 with four kids and I do many other things. Even if I stopped everything else, spent months working just on chess, for a long match against most of the top players, a classical match, six hours, say, I don't stand a chance. I have a better chance in shorter matches. Rapid is 25 minutes, or blitz events where you have five minutes to make a move, or bullet games, where it is one minute. For blitz, five-minutes chess, I would be top ten, top five. But longer games, no chance.

Garry Kasparov

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

Ronald Reagan

We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the popular culture are worn out; a man can no longer depend on them. By the time a man is thirty-five he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Robert Bly

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

Emanuel Swedenborg

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women who have been with man after man after man after man choose to become a lesbian later in life. Gay men, it doesn't work so much that way.

Frankie Grande

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

Orison Swett Marden

YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.

Cameron Dallas

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

Vince Lombardi

Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came after those first minutes was just details being filled in. Meaning: you already knew how deep the love was, how instinctually you felt about someone. What happened in their first five minutes? Time stopped.

Laura Dave

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Orison Swett Marden

Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone.