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Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Ovid
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You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.
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Tom Hiddleston
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
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Thomas A. Edison
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It doesnβt matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.
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Roy T. Bennett
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Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
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James A. Michener
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Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.
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Robin S. Sharma (The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life)
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If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
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Criss Jami (Healology)
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When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.
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Sophocles (Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3))
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The devil's happy when the critics run you off.
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Criss Jami (Venus in Arms)
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How to win in life:
1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, grow
5 don't let people tell you it cant be done
6 make no excuses
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Germany Kent
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
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Criss Jami (Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality)
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Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.
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Criss Jami (Venus in Arms)
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The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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You can't
stop dreaming
just because
the night never
seems to
end.
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Curtis Tyrone Jones
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You opinions about me does not change who I am.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Discover a purpose that gives you passion. Develop a plan that makes you persistent. Design a preparation and motivates you to optimize your potentials. Do it because you love it!
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Israelmore Ayivor (Dream big!: See your bigger picture!)
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When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.
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Criss Jami (Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality)
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Today's tears water tomorrow's gardens.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. β Bill W.
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Bill Wilson
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Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.
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Curtis Tyrone Jones
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Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.
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Tim Fargo
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One bulb at a time. There was no other way to do it. No shortcuts--simply loving the slow process of planting. Loving the work as it unfolded. Loving an achievement that grew slowly and bloomed for only three weeks each year.
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Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards (The Daffodill Principle)
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It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.
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Orrin Woodward
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When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.
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Criss Jami (Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality)
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Itβs good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and youβll get there, not because youβre destined to, but because youβre determined to.
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Steve Goodier
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When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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You must dare, and dare again, and then dare a little bit more, and go on daring.
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Justin Cotillard
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I don't believe in failure. I'm perseverant - I believe in failing.
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Bauvard (Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic)
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A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.
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James N. Watkins
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When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.
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Michelle Moran (Rebel Queen)
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Trying again is okay. Trying again and again and again is okay. It's sort of an infinite thing because the alternative is failure, and that's not okay.
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Richelle E. Goodrich (Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year)
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Hit the reset button. Whatever happened yesterday, forget about it. Get a new perspective. Today is a new day. Fresh start, begins now.
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Germany Kent
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Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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I have a thing for things that last.
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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When you complain, you explain pain for no gain. Endure and balance yourself through the pain, be hopeful and persist to the end.
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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When life places stones in your path, be the water. A persistent drop of water will wear away even the hardest stone.
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Autumn Morning Star
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No matter how many times you cut down a resilient tree, it will keep growing.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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God can allow you to pass through storms and get to your success. But what the devil loves to do is to make you not to realize it that the storm is over. He wishes to keep you in condemnation even at the time you have to feel liberated.
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Israelmore Ayivor
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
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Thomas Carlyle
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If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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When you cannot move a mountain, it is only because you were meant to climb it.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, tenacity and endurance success will come.
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Amit Ray
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When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, βMy life has just begun.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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It is never easy to endure pain nor uncomfortable situation. It is seems easy to quit to avoid the pain.If you quit you will suffer later. It is far better to endure the pain now and enjoy later. Life is all about endurance.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, βIt canβt get any worse!β You're essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that.
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Kamand Kojouri
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Persistence and passion will make you invincible.
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Christian Baloga
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Infinite gratitude, infinite hope.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Persevere like a seed; even when people try to bury you, flourish.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can't do. If they are still not content, do more of it! Keep doing it until you become a master. Then look around, and you will see fewer critics and many compliments!
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Israelmore Ayivor
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Many people who became successful were once first time global failures. But because they didn't give up on their dreams, failure could not sink them. They triumphed at last!
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Israelmore Ayivor
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You may encounter many disappointments. Be strong. Tell yourself, βI am good enough, I will try again.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Go forward and conquer any mountain on your path.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Strong enough to make holes in the rock are tiny drops of water that persist to fall. Persistence is the attitude that breaks down mountains one rock at a time!
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Israelmore Ayivor (Leaders' Watchwords)
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You know what they say. If at first you don't succeed, try the same thing again. Sometimes the effort is called persistence and is the mark of a strong will. Sometimes it's called perseveration and is a sign of immaturity. For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behavior is called... policy.
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Thomas King (The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America)
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Never give up.
Never give up on your hopes.
Never give up on your dreams.
Never give up on your visions.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.
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Criss Jami (Healology)
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Our most beautiful dreams are born from our most unpleasant nightmares.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.
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Criss Jami (Healology)
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A butterfly is a caterpillar who never gave up on his dream to fly.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Countless possibilities exist in any situation. You must maintain a positive outlook to see the miraculous possibilities.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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God's heartβ¦is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.
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Mary E. DeMuth (Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus)
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It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
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Perseverance, endurance and patience are the three greatest survival skills.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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You can use the stumbling blocks to build your success.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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A step towards what you fear is a mile towards mastering it.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you are going through hell, keep walking until you reach heaven.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Brick walls are not there to keep us out, they are there to show us how much we want something.
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Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)
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No age of life is inglorious. Youth has its merits, but living to a ripe old age is the true statement of value. Aging is the road that we take to discern our character. Fame and fortune can elude us, but character is immortal. We must encounter a sufficient variety of experiences including both failures and accomplishments in order to gain nobility of character.
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Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
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We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle...We have given our lives to the enterprise, and that is richer and the moral is greater.
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Woodrow Wilson
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In life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with your problems. If the possibility of failure were erased, what would you attempt to achieve?
The essence of man is imperfection. Know that you're going to make mistakes. The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does. Wake up and realize this: Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success.
Achievers are given multiple reasons to believe they are failures. But in spite of that, they persevere. The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.
When achievers fail, they see it as a momentary event, not a lifelong epidemic.
Procrastination is too high a price to pay for fear of failure. To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway. Forget motivation. Just do it. Act your way into feeling, not wait for positive emotions to carry you forward.
Recognize that you will spend much of your life making mistakes. If you can take action and keep making mistakes, you gain experience.
Life is playing a poor hand well. The greatest battle you wage against failure occurs on the inside, not the outside.
Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?
Handicaps can only disable us if we let them. If you are continually experiencing trouble or facing obstacles, then you should check to make sure that you are not the problem.
Be more concerned with what you can give rather than what you can get because giving truly is the highest level of living.
Embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.
Everything in life brings risk. It's true that you risk failure if you try something bold because you might miss it. But you also risk failure if you stand still and don't try anything new.
The less you venture out, the greater your risk of failure. Ironically the more you risk failure β and actually fail β the greater your chances of success.
If you are succeeding in everything you do, then you're probably not pushing yourself hard enough. And that means you're not taking enough risks. You risk because you have something of value you want to achieve.
The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.
Determining what went wrong in a situation has value. But taking that analysis another step and figuring out how to use it to your benefit is the real difference maker when it comes to failing forward. Don't let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action.
The last time you failed, did you stop trying because you failed, or did you fail because you stopped trying?
Commitment makes you capable of failing forward until you reach your goals. Cutting corners is really a sign of impatience and poor self-discipline.
Successful people have learned to do what does not come naturally. Nothing worth achieving comes easily. The only way to fail forward and achieve your dreams is to cultivate tenacity and persistence.
Never say die. Never be satisfied. Be stubborn. Be persistent. Integrity is a must. Anything worth having is worth striving for with all your might.
If we look long enough for what we want in life we are almost sure to find it. Success is in the journey, the continual process. And no matter how hard you work, you will not create the perfect plan or execute it without error. You will never get to the point that you no longer make mistakes, that you no longer fail.
The next time you find yourself envying what successful people have achieved, recognize that they have probably gone through many negative experiences that you cannot see on the surface.
Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.
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John C. Maxwell (Failing Forward)
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The Jews are known for their perseverance and this is what helps them achieve their goals. Perseverance means continuous persistence in a course of action, a purpose, in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
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H.W. Charles (The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code)
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Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.
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Orrin Woodward (LIFE)
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The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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You have to conquer every obstacle, before you can reach the top of the mountain.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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When push to the wall. You have to develop strategies to scale over the wall.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (On Eagles Wings:Rise)
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My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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You may bend, but that will not bring your life to an end. Your refusal to give up is the key; your rose flowers blossom from the thorns of life!
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Israelmore Ayivor (Daily Drive 365)
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Thatβs the thing Iβve learned about mountains: the joy you feel at scaling them is in direct proportion to how high and impassable the peak appears to be once youβre on the other side of it.
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Marie Bostwick (Just In Time)
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It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how to keep on working until the work is done. Woody Allen famously declared that "eighty percent of success is showing up." NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) teaches kids how to show up again and again.
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Jonah Lehrer (Imagine: How Creativity Works)
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To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them.
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Victor Hugo
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You'll jigsaw [the broken pieces of yourself] together however you can, caulk in the odd bits with willpower wherever they don't quite fit, ignore the occasional sounds of grinding and cracking. As long as nothing important breaks, right? You'll get by. You have to.
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N.K. Jemisin (The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1))
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You may work with 100% capacity every day and may not be seen by anybody for recommendation. This does not mean you should give up! The day you will decide to work at 40% may be the day you'll be seen by the person who is meant to recommend you for higher profile opportunities!
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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Education is a choice. We don't become educated by watching television, and we don't learn a whole lot having similar conversations with the same, safe people day after day. Our education comes from pushing up against boundaries, from taking risks that may seem at first to be overwhelming, and by persevering past the first disappointments or shortfalls until we reach a point at which actual learning takes place. Determination and perseverance are absolutely vital to developing a true education--rarely, if ever, do we learn the most valuable lessons in the first few steps of the journey.
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Tom Walsh
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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it should be ablaze with noble and enduring lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history, and form one of the guiding lights of man. The dawn dares when it rises. To strive, to brave all risks, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to yourself, to grapple hand to hand with destiny, to surprise defeat by the little terror it inspires, at one time to confront unrighteous power, at another to defy intoxicated triumph, to hold fast, to hold hard - such is the example which the nations need, and the light that electrifies them.
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Victor Hugo (Les MisΓ©rables)
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Sertorius rose up and spoke to his army, βYou see, fellow soldiers, that perseverance is more prevailing than violence, and that many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Assiduity and persistence are irresistible, and in time overthrow and destroy the greatest powers whatever. Time being the favorable friend and assistant of those who use their judgment to await his occasions, and the destructive enemy of those who are unseasonably urging and pressing forward.
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Plutarch (Plutarch's Lives: Volume II)
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None of us can truly know what we mean to other people, and none of us can know what our future self will experience. History and philosophy ask us to remember these mysteries, to look around at friends, family, humanity, at the surprises life brings β the endless possibilities that living offers β and to persevere. There is love and insight to live for, bright moments to cherish, and even the possibility of happiness, and the chance of helping someone else through his or her own troubles. Know that people, through history and today, understand how much courage it takes to stay. Bear witness to the night side of being human and the bravery it entails, and wait for the sun. If we meditate on the record of human wisdom we may find there reason enough to persist and find our way back to happiness. The first step is to consider the arguments and evidence and choose to stay. After that, anything may happen. First, choose to stay.
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Jennifer Michael Hecht (Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It)
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But I apprised you that I was a hard man," said he, "difficult to persuade."
"And I am a hard womanβimpossible to put off."
"And then," he pursued, "I am cold: no fervour infects me."
"Whereas I am hot, and fire dissolves ice. The blaze there has thawed all the snow from your cloak; by the same token, it has streamed on to my floor, and made it like a trampled street. As you hope ever to be forgiven, Mr. Rivers, the high crime and misdemeanour of spoiling a sanded kitchen, tell me what I wish to know."
"Well, then," he said, "I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping.
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Charlotte BrontΓ« (Jane Eyre)