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When I
began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed
patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.
-- Bianca Jagger |
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Most people never run
far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams
all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
-- William James
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"When you reach the end
of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
-- Thomas
Jefferson *
To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.
--
Thomas Jefferson |
Acknowledge that
you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure
it never happens again.
-- Michael Johnson
“Great
works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance”
-- Samuel Johnson
"I can accept
failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
-- Michael
Jordan (1963-) U.S. basketball player
"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."
-- Michael Jordan
(1963-) U.S. basketball player
"Don't
follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of
tomorrow."
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
"
Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure, Learn
from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're
not failing, you're not growing."
-- H. Stanley Judd
“Try
and fail, but don't fail to try.”
-- Stephen Kaggwa
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"We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough."
-- Helen Keller *
Defeat
is simply a signal to press onward.
--
Helen Keller Although
the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
-- Helen
Keller |  |
Champions
keep playing until they get it right.
-- Billie Jean King
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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose
that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And
so today I still have a dream.
-- Martin Luther King,
Jr
“We must accept finite
disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”
--
Martin Luther King, Jr
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Opportunities are
usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
-- Ann
Landers
“For all things difficult to
acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.”
-- Lao Tzu
“The
flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days”
-- Robert Leighton
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“My great concern is not whether
you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
-- Abraham
Lincoln *
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the
support of a cause we believe to be just.
-- Abraham
Lincoln I
will prepare and some day my chance will come.
-- Abraham
Lincoln |  |
Always bear in mind
that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln
“Perseverance
is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at
the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting
wrinkles the soul.”
-- Douglas MacArthur
There
is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates
obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes
a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets
out to do.
-- Orison Swett Marden
"We
conquer by continuing."
-- George Matheson
"A
difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our
existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve."
-- John Maxwell
"He
who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence
and labor.”
-- Menander
Plan
your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity
and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.
-- Paul J. Meyer
English author
and humorist "Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day."
-- A.A. Milne (1882-1956), (Alan Alexander Milne)
The
heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But
they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
--
Thomas S. Monson
Big
shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
-- Christopher Morley
Don't
let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way
of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing
time to the best possible use.
-- Earl Nightingale
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