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They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it wi...

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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trus...

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All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail bette...

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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by ...

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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to dilige...

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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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Samuel JohnsonJohnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road...

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Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, re...

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding t...

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Steve MartinBorn Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

She watched with morbid fascination as they gathered at the stumps at the ends of the man's wrists, ...

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The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.

We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as lon...

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Tennessee WilliamsCat on a Hot Tin Roof

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibili...

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Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern...

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You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed.

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe...

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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitiv...

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Thick is the darkness-- Sunward, O, sunward!Rough is the highway-- Onward, still onward!Dawn harbors...

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This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or sm...

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There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother ...

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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead...

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"I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards ar...

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"Success is buried on the other side of rejection."

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a no...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vis...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to re...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorat...

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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

Self-preservation is not a man’s first duty: flight is his last. Better and wiser and infinitely nob...

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Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy Scripture Psalms

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say...

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Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, te...

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It is not over. Champions extend their limits and make things happen.

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

Champions never sleep, the eternal spirit keep them alert and awake.

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Amit RayEnlightenment Step by Step

Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through s...

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not,...

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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. If "li...

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The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how...

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I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It'...

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Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally...

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For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through cre...

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Arthur Hugh CloughSay not the Struggle Naught Availeth

I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.

...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort...

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Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Tehran

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

He who can have patience can have what he will.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

This is a world where things move at their own pace, including a tiny lift Fortey and I shared with ...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.

...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

You see, it is so hard for these creatures to persevere. The routine of adversity, the gradual decay...

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Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than uns...

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I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.

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Charles BukowskiWhat Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the ...

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Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

Weel, ma´am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha´finished off, I mun quit ...

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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...

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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips...

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If I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from the easy tasks, what preparation ...

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They outnumbered me, and I was worsted and under their feet; but, as yet, I was not dead.

His will be done, as done it surely will be, whether we humble ourselves to resignation or not. The ...

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It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...

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Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

What's the bravest thing you ever did?He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, ...

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying w...

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It is very much, she thinks, like looking at the moon and knowing one could make it there, too. It i...

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Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College stu...

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Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can't kill the Rooster. You might ca...

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Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perse...

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Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only ...

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Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvi...

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My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tes...

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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''Of course. Who said it?''I don't know.''He wa...

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