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The
difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a person's
determination. -Tommy Lasorda
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If
you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're
doing,
then you start looking to bail out the first time
the boat starts leaking.
It's tough enough getting that
boat to shore with everybody rowing,
let alone when a person stands up and starts putting his
or her life jacket on. -Lou Holtz
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Firmness
of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of
character,
and one of the best instruments for success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of
inconsistencies. -Lord Chesterfield |
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The line between failure and success
is so fine that we . . . are often
on the line and do not
know it. How many a person has thrown up
his or her hands at a time
when a little more effort,
a little more patience, would
have achieved success. A little more persistence, a
little more effort,
and what seemed hopeless failure may
turn to glorious success. -Elbert Hubbard
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The difficult we do immediately;
the impossible takes a little longer.
-Air Force motto
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There is no failure except in
no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within,
no really insurmountable barrier
save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
-Elbert Hubbard
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We must accept
responsibility for
a problem before we can solve it. We cannot solve a problem by saying
"It's not my problem," and hoping
that someone else will solve it for us. We can
solve a problem only when
we say "This is my problem
and
it's up to me to solve it."
-M.
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future and our fate lie in our wills
more than in
our hands,
for our hands are but the instruments
of our wills. -B.C. Forbes |
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A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains
with the green majesty of a forest. I too will set my face to the wind
and throw my handful of seed on high.
-Fiona MacLeod
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| The rung of the ladder was never meant to
rest upon,
but only to hold a our foot long enough to
enable us
to put the other somewhat higher.
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There are but two roads that
lead to
an important goal and
to the doing
of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of
but a
few
privileged people; but austere perseverance,
harsh and
continuous,
may be employed by the smallest
of us
and
rarely fails of its purpose,
for its silent power grows
irresistibly greater with time. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The
drop of rain maketh a hole in the
stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Hugh
Latimer |
Constant dripping
hollows out a stone.
Lucretius |
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The
little troubles and worries of life, so many of which we
meet,
may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may
make them
stepping-stones to a noble character and to
Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God
fashions us for better things. -Henry
Ward Beecher
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As the
sculptor devotes him or herself to wood and stone,
I would
devote myself to my soul. -Toyohiko Kagawa |
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I
won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind.
But I just want to leave a committed life behind.
-Martin
Luther King, Jr.
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When
things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low, and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit--
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
It's when things go wrong that you mustn't quit.
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Care no more for the opinion of others,
for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself! Face the truth.
-Katherine
Mansfield |
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There is in this world no such force
as the force
of a person determined to rise. The human soul
cannot be permanently chained. -W.E.B. Du Bois |
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Undertake something that is difficult; it
will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond
what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
-Ronald E. Osborn
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Smooth
seas do not make skillful sailors. -African proverb
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To reach the port of heaven we must
sail, sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it--but we must sail, not drift or lie at anchor.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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O
Lord, you give us everything,
at the price of an effort. -Leonardo
Da Vinci
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This
shall be my parting word: Know what you want to do--then do it.
Make straight for your goal and go
undefeated in spirit to the end. -Ernestine
Schumann-Heink |
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The cynic says,
"One person
can't do anything."
I say, "Only
one person
can do anything."
-John Gardner |
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With
all the infinite possibilities of spiritual life before
you,
do not settle down on a little patch of dusty ground
at the mountain's foot
in restful content. Be not
content until you reach the mountain's summit.
-J.R. Miller |
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We can do anything we want
to
do
if we stick to it long enough.
-Helen
Keller |
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Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about
being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance,
and
determination. And the best motto for
a long march is,
"Don't grumble. Plug on!"
-Frederick Treves |
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Never stop. One always
stops as soon as
something is about to happen. -Peter Brook |
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I'm a little wounded, but I am not
slain;
I will lay me down
to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
-John Dryden |
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You can surmount the obstacles in your path
if you are determined,
courageous and
hard-working. Never
be fainthearted. Be resolute,
but never bitter. . . .
Permit no one to
dissuade you from pursuing
the goals you
set for yourselves. Do not fear to pioneer,
to venture
down new paths of endeavor. -Ralph J. Bunche |
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Never give in! Never,
never, never, never. . . .
In nothing great or small,
large or petty,
never give in except to convictions or
honor and good sense! -Winston Churchill |
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I realized early on
that success was tied to not giving up.
Most people in
this business gave up and went on to other things.
If you
simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people
who
came in on the bus with you. -Harrison Ford |
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How
many years you have to keep on doing,
until you know what
to do and how to do! -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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Emotional
maturity is the ability to stick to a job
and to struggle
through
until it is finished,
to endure unpleasantness,
discomfort and frustration. -Edward A. Strecker |
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The first and final
thing you have
to do in this world is to last in it,
and
not be smashed by it. -Ernest Hemingway |
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No
one ever did anything worth doing
unless they were prepared
to go on with
it long after it became something of a bore.
-
Douglas V. Steere |
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The great
thing, and the hard thing, is to stick to things
when you
have outlived the first interest, and not yet
got the
second, which comes with a sort of mastery.
-Janet Erskine Stuart |
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If something is boring after two
minutes, try it for four.
If still boring, try for eight,
sixteen, thirty-two, and so on.
Eventually, one discovers
that it is not boring, but very interesting.
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I
just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing.
The
real question is, why did other people stop?
-William Stafford |
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With ordinary talent and
extraordinary perseverance, all things are possible.
-Thomas Foxwell Buxton |
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The person who removed the
mountain
began by carrying away small stones.
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Determine
that the thing can and shall
be done and then find the way.
-Abraham
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