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Yoko Ono: “Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
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Thomas Alva Edison: “The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
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Mary Pickford: “Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
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T. S. Eliot: “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Michelle Obama: “Hope and change are hard-fought things.
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Michael Jordan: “Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
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Pauline Kael: “Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
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Thomas Edison: “The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
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Ella Fitzgerald: “Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
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Brian Tracy: “Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.
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Rabbi Tarfon: “Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Brian Tracy: “Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
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Alistair Cooke: “A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
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Jean de La Bruyere: “No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it.
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Vincent van Gogh: “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
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Wilma Mankiller: “The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
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Benjamin Franklin: “Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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William Penn: “Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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Thomas Merton: “Push on -- keep moving.
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Bill Clinton: “If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
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Barack Obama: “Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
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Herodotus: “Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Elbert Hubbard: “There is no failure except in no longer trying.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Ambrose Bierce: “Perseverance, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Mary Pickford: “If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
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Walter Cronkite: “I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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Julia Ward Howe: “I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
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Margaret Mead: “Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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